Amadu Moses Yahaya

Moses Amadu Yahaya is a Ghanaian building technician, politician and was a Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the Convention Peoples' Party.

Professional life Yahaya worked as a development worker for the Tolon-Kumbungu District of the Northern Region. From 1996 to 2006 he worked with the international NGO Ghanaian Danish Community Programme as a development officer. After his contract with the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) ended, he worked with Kings Village, another international NGO which helped in the areas of community education and health. He worked to improve the quality of life of the people in the district till he appointed acting country Director of the NGO until his election as MP. He is currently the Eastern Regional Manager for National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) (2017–present).

Political life While he was working with The King's Village, Ghana, Yahaya developed an interest in politics. He served as the assemblyman for Saakuba Electoral Area one of the communities in the Kumbungu constituency.

2013 by-election In 2013, the Electoral Commission announced that it would hold a by-election in Kumbungu to fill the vacant parliamentary seat. The seat became vacant after the incumbent MP, Muhammad Mumuni, was appointed the secretary-general of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and African Caribbean Pacific countries to complete the tenure of Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas. Yahaya competed against two other candidates, Imoro Yakubu Kakpagu of the NDC and Ahmed Nasiru Mohammed of the Progressive People's Party (PPP). Yahaya got 13,029 votes representing 51.80% of the total votes cast.