ET Mensah, a former Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram constituency and Council of State member, has passed away at the age of 77. He succumbed to ill-health last night in South Africa. His death follows the recent passing of former First Lady Theresa Kufuor on October 1, 2023.
Enoch Teye Mensah, commonly known as ET Mensah, served as a Minister for Education and was a Member of Parliament in Ghana from January 1997 to January 2017. Born on May 17, 1946, he was married and had seven children.
During the PNDC military regime in Ghana, Mensah held the position of Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), similar to that of a Mayor. He joined the National Democratic Congress (NDC) when it was established in 1992. He successfully ran for the Ningo-Prampram constituency in 1996 and held the seat for the Constituency.
After the NDC lost the 2000 elections, he continued as a member of parliament. Mensah lost the NDC primaries to Sam George on 21 November 2015.
He once served as the Minority Chief Whip in parliament prior to the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2008. In January 2009, he became the Majority Chief Whip in Parliament.
At the beginning of the Fourth Republic, he was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports by President Jerry Rawlings. Mensah held that position through both terms of the Rawlings government. In January 2010, after a cabinet reshuffle, President John Atta Mills appointed him Minister for Employment and Social Welfare.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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