Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana

Subsequent constitutions have provided for the election of the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.

He stayed at post till December 1957, a few months after Ghana gained independence.

In January 2009, Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo became the first female speaker of the Ghanaian parliament.

Where the speaker is elected from among the members of parliament, Article 97 of the constitution specifies that the Speaker vacates his or her seat in Parliament, triggering a by-election.

[6] The only person to have been in this position so far is Edward Adjaho who was the elected member for the then Akatsi South constituency.

[9] Article 101 of the Ghana Constitution stipulates that the Speaker presides at all sittings of parliament.