Background
Collins Dauda was born at Mehame in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.
Collins Dauda was born at Mehame in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.
His secondary education was at Mim Senior High School where he obtained both the General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level and the General Certificate of Education Advanced Level between 1973 to 1981. Dauda taught at the Kukuom Agricultural Senior High School from 1985. In 1986, he joined the teaching staff at the Ahafoman Senior High School where he continued until 1992.
He however lost his seat in 2000 parliamentary election due to an allegation that he"d used black magic to kill his political rival Professor
Gyan-Amoah just a day before the general elections. He however regained the seat in In February 2009, Collins Dauda was appointed Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources and reshuffled to the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing.
He was first elected to parliament in the 1992 parliamentary election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress making him the first Member of Parliament for the Asutifi South in the Fourth Republic. 2004. During 2002 and 2004 when he was out of parliament, he was the Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Dauda became a member of the Asutifi District Assembly between 1978 to 1981. He was a member of the Consultative Assembly that drew up the 1992 Ghana constitution between 1991 and 1992.