The Former Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, Enoch Teye Mensah, popularly known as E T Mensah, has died at aged 77. He died in South Africa last night after battling ill-health for some time. This unfortunate news comes on the same day former first lady of Ghana, Mrs. Theresa Kuffuor died. Read article here
ET Mensah was a Minister for Education and a Member of Parliament in Ghana from January 1997 till January 2017.
Enoch Teye Mensah(ET Mensah) is married with seven children
This comes after the dead of the former first lady of Ghana, Theresah Kufour, who died on Sunday, 1st October, 2023
POLITICAL CAREER OF E T MENSAH
During the time of the PNDC military regime in Ghana, he was the long time Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), akin to being the Mayor of the City of Accra. He joined the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992.
AS A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
He also stood for the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 1996 and was elected MP for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, holding the seat for over a decade. 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.
AS A MINISTER OF STATE
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.
Mensah was a member of the Pan-African Parliament until January 2009, when he resigned after being appointed a member of state. In January 2011, he was appointed Minister for Education following the resignation of Betty Mould-Iddrisu.
On 12 February 2021, Mensah was unanimously elected as the representative of Council of State for the Greater Accra Region.
His demise comes as a shock to the party as they prepare to enter the 2024 election. InformerGh condoles with the bereaved family.
