Linda Obenewaa Akweley Ocloo

In 2000, Ocloo obtained her Diploma in Banking from the Cambridge Academy in Accra and a Business Administration (BA) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She holds a diploma in insurance from the National Insurance College at Airport Accra, which she achieved in 2004.^[5] She also has an Honoring Doctorate Degree from Elohim Theological College & Seminary in 2024 as well as an MA in Banking and Finance from the Methodist University of Ghana in 2025^[6]

Ocloo is an economist, banker and an insurer by profession.^[5] She served as a Client Service Consultant at Old Mutual Assurance, formerly Provident Life Insurance.^[7]

Ocloo is a member of the National Democratic Congress representing Shai-Osudoku constituency in the Greater Accra Region in the Seventh and Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.^[8]

Ocloo contested the Shai-Osudoku constituency parliamentary seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress during the 2016 Ghanaian general election, and won with 20,114 votes representing 67.07% of the total votes. She was elected over Stephen Nene Oyortey of the New Patriotic Party who polled 6,518 votes, equivalent to 21.73%, parliamentary candidate for the PPP Emmanuel Martey Tetteh had 3,203 votes representing 10.68% and the parliamentary candidate for the Convention People's Party had 154 votes representing 0.51% of the total votes.^[9]

Ocloo was re-elected as a member of parliament for Shai-Osudoku on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress during the 2020 Ghanaian general election. She was elected with 32,516 votes, representing 67.2% over the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party Benjamin Nargeh, who had 15,900 votes, representing 32.8% of the total votes.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Ocloo is widowed and has five children. Her husband, Desmond William Ocloo, was the original NDC parliamentary candidate for the Shai-Osudoku constituency but died prior to the election following a road traffic collision in May 2016. The party then chose her to stand in place of her husband and she won with a majority of 13,596 votes.^[14][1] She is a Christian (Mission of God Church, Dodowa)^[5][15]