Nana Kwame Akuoko Sarpong, CV (born 11 August 1938) is a Ghanaian traditional ruler, politician and lawyer.
[4] Nana Kwame Akuoko Sarpong was born on 11 August 1938 at Agogo, Ashanti Region, Ghana.
He gained admission into the University of Ghana to pursue courses in economics, sociology, law and political science.
Some of his contemporaries included Tawia Modibo Ocran whom he contested against to win the JCR Presidency of the Commonwealth Hall in the previous year; 1964.
The party could not begin operations as Dr. Obed Asamoah joined Komla Agbeli Gbedemah's National Alliance of Liberals and subsequently got elected to represent the Biakoye District of the Volta Region in the erstwhile Second Republic which was led by Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.
Efforts by Justice Daniel Francis Annan who used their mutual love for sports, their legal profession and their Accra Academy background to get him on board also proved futile.
It was the efforts of his former political colleague, Dr. Obed Asamoah, which succeeded in making him join the government of the PNDC in 1988.
He informed John Kufuor; his former parliamentary colleague and later president of the Republic of Ghana and Victor Owusu about the invitation to be a PNDC secretary of which they both welcomed.
[7] As the Acting Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he was a member of the delegation of two that visited the United States of America to normalize relations between the Government of the United States of America and Ghana after relations had grown sour between both countries in the late 1980s due to what was known as the Soussoudis affair.
During his tenure in office, he was the leader of the delegation at the Conference of Ministers to Combat Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering held in Versailles, near Paris.
[7] He was acting Secretary of Foreign affairs for a second occasion and during this period he played a leading role in the transitioning of Ghana to democratic rule in 1992.
In the early hours of 16 December 1975, Nana Kwaku Duah, the uncle of Kwame Akuoko Sarpong passed on.
On 16 January 1976, Nana Akuoko Sarpong swore the oath of allegiance before the Asantehene, Otumfuo Opoku Ware II at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi.