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Samira Bawumia is a Ghanaian politician who serves as Ghana’s Second Lady. She is married to Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana’s vice president.
Early Life
She is the only child of Hajia Ayesha Ramadan and Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, the former National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), and was born on Wednesday, August 20, 1980.
Education
Samira attended the Answarudeen Islamic School in Fadama for her early schooling before transferring to Alsyd Academy in Dzorwulu, Accra. She proceeded to Akosombo International School (AIS) and Mfantsiman Girls’ Secondary School in Saltpond, Ghana’s Central Region, for her senior secondary education.
Samira Bawumia graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science with a focus on law, sociology, and technology.
She received the 2012 Master of Business Administration (MBA) Best Student award from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), where she completed her postgraduate studies.
Samira posted graduation pictures to her Instagram account in March 2023, announcing that she had earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London in the United Kingdom.
She stated that in spite of COVID-19, she enrolled in a law degree program through the UK institution’s online program.
Marriage And Personal Life
Samira Bawumia is married to Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana’s vice president, and the two of them have four kids. During the 2016 Ghanaian presidential and parliamentary election season, she attracted a lot of attention.
She promoted an anti-corruption and anti-inefficient use of public funds.
Political Ambitions
When her husband, Mahamadu Bawumia, was the running mate of Nana Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate in the 2016 election, Samira Bawumia rose to prominence in politics.
She has been a consistent presence ever since, standing behind her husband, who was elected vice president of Ghana after winning that election.
In 2020, Samira’s husband was inaugurated in as vice president for a second term, and the NPP was re-elected.
In the months preceding the 2020 elections, she served as the Second Lady of the Republic and traveled the nation campaigning for the New Patriotic Party and her husband’s reelection as vice president.
Samira and Rebecca Akufo-Addo, the First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, rejected additional emoluments for Article 71 office holders in 2021, including the spouses of the president and vice president of the country.
All of the salaries that had been given to them since 2017 were reimbursed.
Humanitarian
Samira is the founder and CEO of Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects (SEHP), a non-profit organization founded to better the lives of Ghana’s impoverished by empowering them through a variety of social intervention initiatives.
She gave library books to the Police Basic Schools in November 2019 in an effort to encourage the kids to read. This was her ‘library in the box’ concept, which aims to provide schoolchildren with access to literature.
The empowerment of women is another interest of the Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects organization.
The group has supported ideas and made investments in women’s education and empowerment. As part of her “Needles4Girls” initiative, she enrolled over 2,500 girls in fashion schools around the nation with the goal of empowering them by giving them respectable means of subsistence.
In order to help 70 women in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region with their commercial endeavors, she also gave them each 3,000 Ghana cedis. Giving women the chance to influence Ghana’s economy is something that Samira Bawumia believes in.
