Joseph Trumah Bayel

Bayel was a member of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. His first appearance in parliament was in 1992 when he contested as a parliamentary candidate for the Sawla/Kalba constituency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.^[5][6][7][8] Even though, information about his 1992 victory is not scarce to get, he was again reelected into parliament in the 1996 election which he won with a total of 17,876 valid votes cast making 59.40%.^[9][10] He contested again in the 2000 Ghanaian general election^[11] and maintained the seat for the National Democratic Congress for the third term. He won with 10,286 votes making 57.50% of the total valid vote cast. His political ties with the National Democratic Congress ended but he resurfaced in 2012 on the ticket.^[12]

Bayel was a Christian. He graduated from St. John Bosco's College of Education.^[4] He died after a short illness in August 2025, at the age of 71.^[13]