Moses O.T. Owharo

Moses Okeoghene Timothy Owharo hails from Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria. He was the first democratically elected Executive President of the All Nigerian Community, Ghana (ANC-GH), in an election conducted by the Electoral Commission of Ghana at the Nigeria High Commission in Accra.

Before his election as Executive President of ANC-GH — where the population of Nigerians in Ghana was estimated at over 4 million — Mr. Owharo served as General Secretary of the Ghana Association of Financial NGOs (Southern Zone) and Regional Secretary of ANC-GH in the Volta Region of Ghana. He served as Vice Chairman and later Chairman of the ANC Ketu District chapter for four years, and was a Regional Delegate on the 2013 ANC-GH Constitutional Review Committee responsible for drafting the 2013 Constitution.

He is a businessman and social entrepreneur in microfinance, healthcare and general business, holding a certificate from Harvard Business School, Boston, and George Washington University, USA. He is the founder/CEO of ASPI and Group Chairman of the African Business Venture and Investment Group (ABVIG).

Among his achievements is the lobbying of major stakeholders across Nigeria and Ghana's political terrain for the inclusion of strategic diaspora policies and the accommodation of diaspora Africans in key decision-making processes — engaging former presidents, ministers of state, chief directors of ministries, and corporate leaders of local and international organisations.

He successfully implemented projects for USAID, the Ghana Government Health Service, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Farmers Based Organization Project, and the UN World Food Programme, both as consultant and project partner, and currently consults for West Africa on steel factory establishment in Africa.

"My vision, as the All Nigeria Community Ghana (ANC-GH) President, has always been to encourage a positive change in approach and procedures," he says. His approach was to harness this mission into a strategic, replicable document — the "ANC-GH Development Road Map" — for the mutual progress of diaspora citizens in Ghana and the betterment of Nigeria–Ghana–West Africa relations.

Seeing the bigger challenges facing all Africans in diaspora and the complexity of deprivation in voting rights and exclusion from national and international policy-making, Mr. Owharo felt the diaspora needed one voice under one umbrella body — the International Community of Africans in Diaspora (ICAD), which was incorporated in Ghana.