Prior to entering politics in 1969 he was the senior quantity surveyor for the Ghana Housing Corporation.
[3] In 1969 when the second republic was ushered in, he contested for the Wassa West seat on the ticket of the Progress Party and won.
After the coup, he and other members of the party detained without charge or trial for fifteen months by the then military government.
[10][11] In 1992 when the Justice Annan committee revealed that the nation was ready for multiparty politics B. J. Da Rocha and other members of the defunct progress party frequently met at the house of Krakue with the intention to revive the Busia-Danquah-Dombo tradition of the Progress Party.
[13] He is also known to have introduced Peter Mac Manu a former chairman of the National Patriotic Party to politics.
He helped him partner with Mr. Agyenim-Boateng a former secretary of the party to win back Busia-Danquah-Dombo loyalists in the Western Region.