Minister for Transportation Honourable Dr. Richard Winfred Anane, the Minister for Road Transport, was born in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on March 12, 1954. Between 1969 and 1974, he attended Asanteman Secondary School in Kumasi where he sat for and obtained grade one with distinction in the GCE O' level certificate examination.

He pursued his sixth form course at Aggrey Memorial Secondary School at Cape Coast between 1974 and 1976 and thereafter gained admission to the KNUST to study medicine.

After his studies in medicine, Dr. Anane served as a house officer at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and was subsequently appointed a medical officer at the same hospital.

In 1990, he was promoted to the position of Senior Medical Officer. After some years with the hospital, he joined the Hebrona Hospital as the Medical Director in 1998.

The political activities of the Minister dated back to 1980 when he worked as the Secretary of the USA branch of the defunct Popular Front Party (PFP) and in the following year became the President of the University's branch of the All Peoples' Party.

Dr. Anane also served as the coordinator (Northern Sector) Progress Youth Club and was a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He is a member of National Council of the NPP. He was a member of the Policy Advisory Committee for the 2000 manifesto; Chairman of the sub-committee on Agriculture for the Policy Advisor Committee of the 1996 and 2000 National Campaign teams of the NPP.

The Minister contested on the ticket of the NPP in the 1996 and 2000 parliamentary election and won the seat in the two polls.

During the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic, Dr. Anane was the Minority Spokesperson for Food and Agriculture, Ranking member, Parliamentary Select Committee and Food Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs and MP responsible for health.

He was also a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Members Holding Office of Project and a member of the Ministerial delegation to the Royal Agricultural Show, Coventry, UK.