Ophelia Hayford

Hon. Ophelia Hayford
Member of Parliament for Mfantseman Constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 January 2021
President	Nana Akuffo Addo
Personal details
Nationality	Ghanaian
Political party	New Patriotic Party
Relations	Ekow Hayford
Children	2
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Policewoman

Ophelia Mensah Hayford is a Ghanaian Politician.^[1] She contested in the 2020 Ghanaian General Election and won the parliamentary seat for the Mfantsiman Constituency.^[2]

Politics[]

Hayford is a member of the New Patriotic Party. Her late husband, Ekow Hayford was the Member of parliament for Mfantsiman Constituency. After the death of her husband while serving in office, she decided replace him as the Member of parliament for the Mfantsiman constituency.^[1] In December 2020, she was elected member of Parliament for Mfantsiman Constituency after she competed in the 2020 Ghanaian General Election under the ticket of the New Patriotic Party and won. She polled 36,091 votes which represents 51.83% of the total votes cast. She was elected over James Essuon of the National Democratic Congress and Alijatu Ibrahim of the Ghana Union Movement. These obtained 32,379 and 911 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 46.76%, and 1.31% respectively of total valid votes cast.^[2]

Personal life[]

She is the wife of the late Ekow Hayford. .^[3] She has two children. she is 47 years old. she's a christian.

Career and Appointments[]

Ophelia was an Assistant superintendent of Police(ASP) she was the chief Inspector with the Ghana Police Service. Ophelia Hayford also worked with Interpol Unit at the CID Headquarters. Ophelia joined the Ghana police in 1993 as a recruit. And since then, she has served in the service for 27 years. ^[4]

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