[3] Moses Asaga had been nominated for a ministerial position in 2009 but was withdrawn following a controversy about some ex-gratia awards he had authorised.

[4] After John Dramani Mahama won the 2012 General Elections, he replaced Moses Asaga with Nii Armah Ashietey as Minister of Employment and Social Welfare.

[5] He was then given the position as the C.E.O of the National Petroleum Authority in 2013 by former president John Dramani Mahama Moses Asaga holds a BSc in Industrial Chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

In addition to that he has MPhil in Financial Economics from Durham University, United Kingdom.

[7] He was the manager and project financier of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) in Tema.

[8] He became a member of parliament from January 2005 after emerging winner in the General Election in December 2004.

[13][9] In 2008, he won the general elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress for the same constituency.