In 2019, Tawiah was honoured post-humously along with Jerry Rawlings and others with an award by the Ghana Mineworkers Union's during their 75th Anniversary celebrations.
[2] Tawiah was appointed to the PNDC in August 1982 along with Aanaa Enin, this was following the resignations of Reverend Father Damuah and Amartey Quaye.
[3][4][5] During the PNDC era, Paul Collins Appiah Ofori who later became MP for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa claimed that he had been wrongfully detained under the military regime and Tawiah was instrumental along with Rawlings in his release.
[7] The NCP went into an alliance with the NDC led by Jerry Rawlings for the 1992 Ghanaian presidential election.
[8] In 2011, he publicly backed the bid by the Ghanaian president John Atta Mills for nomination by the National Democratic Congress to stand on its ticket in the 2012 Ghanaian general election for president.