Hon. Daniel Kweku Botwe is currently the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and is also the Member of Parliament for the Okere constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.  He obtained a GCE Ordinary Level certificate at Kumasi Academy and a GCE Advanced Level certificate in 1977 from Achimota School.  He is a product of the Presbyterian Primary and Middle Schools at Malang in the Ahafo-Ano of the Ashanti Region. 

Hon. Daniel Kweku Botwe served as the Minister of Communications in the John Agyekum Kufuor administration, Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development in the Nana Akuffo Addo administration, and has been the Minister for Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development in the Nana Akufo-Addo first and second government.