Francis Yao Asare was a Ghanaian pharmacist and politician.
[3] He trained as a druggist at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and worked as a pharmacist for the Ghana Civil Service from 1940 to 1947.
[4][5] That same year, he was appointed Ministerial Secretary (deputy minister) for the Ministry of Housing.
[3][8] He was re-elected to represent the Buem constituency in subsequent years until 1965 when he was sentenced to twenty-one years imprisonment on charges of the defrauding the government an amount of over £1 million.
[9][10] After the overthrow of the Nkrumah government Francis went into fishing and was made president of the National Inshore Boat Owners Association.