Tawia Adamafio | |
Office: | Information and Broadcasting Minister |
Term Start: | 1960 |
Term End: | 1962 |
President: | Kwame Nkrumah |
Office2: | Minister for Presidential Affairs |
President2: | Kwame Nkrumah |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | Convention People's Party |
Tawia Adamafio (born Joseph Tawia Adams)[1] was a Ghanaian minister in the Nkrumah government during the first republic of Ghana.
Adamafio was a member of the Convention People's Party and rose to become its General Secretary.[2] In 1960, he was appointed the Information and Broadcasting Minister by Nkrumah.[3] He was also Minister for Presidential Affairs concurrently.[4] This was an influential position in the government at the time.[5]
Adamafio was one of the close associates of Kwame Nkrumah who stood trial for treason following the Kulungugu grenade attempt on his life.[6] Adamafio and others were freed after the first trial but was eventually found guilty following a second trial by a pro-government panel.[7] The trial judges were Kobina Arku Korsah, at the time the Chief Justice of Ghana and two Supreme Court judges, William Van Lare and Edward Akufo-Addo who later became Chief Justice of Ghana and then President of Ghana during the second republic. They were all sacked by Nkrumah following the acquittal of Adamafio.[7]