Nana Yaw Edward Ofori-Kuragu

Nana Yaw Edward Ofori-Kaguru (born 19 December 1963) is a hotelier He was an independent member of the Parliament. He is a product of the University of East London, UK.

Elections Ofori-Kaguru was elected as the member of parliament for the Besome-Freho constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the first time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections. He contested as an independent candidate. He was elected with 16,209 votes out of 19,796 total valid votes cast equivalent to 81.9% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Kwame Adarkwa of the National Democratic Congress and Richmond Addai Agyare of the Convention People's Party. These obtained 17.3% and 0.8% respectively of total valid votes cast.

In 2008, he won the general elections for the same constituency. He was elected with 9,140 votes out of 19,462 total valid votes cast equivalent to 46.96% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Kwadwo Kyei Frimpong of the National People’ Party, Asiedu Anthony Kennedy of the National Democratic Congress and Sebastian Sunnoma of the Democratic Freedom Party. These obtained 41.43%, 11.25% and 0.35% respectively of the total votes cast.

Personal life Ofori-Kaguru is a Catholic Christian. He is married with two children.