NDC’s ET Mensah Dies At Aged 77

ET Mensah, the former Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram seat, died at the age of 77. She died Friday night in South Africa after a long battle with illness.

ET Mensah served as Ghana’s Minister of Education and Member of Parliament from January 1997 until January 2017.

Enoch Teye Mensah (ET Mensah) is a father of seven children.

ET Mensah died at the age of 77.

This follows the death of Ghana’s former first lady, Theresa Kufour, on Sunday, October 1, 2023.

ET MENSAH’S POLITICAL CAREER AS ACCRA MAYOR

During the PNDC military administration in Ghana, he was the long-term Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), which was comparable to being the Mayor of Accra. In 1992, he became a member of the National Democratic Congress.

As a member of the House of Commons

In 1996, he ran for the Ghanaian parliamentary election and was elected MP for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, which he held for over a decade. He remained a member of parliament after the NDC lost the 2000 elections. On November 21, 2015, Mensah was defeated in the NDC primaries by Sam George. Prior to the 2008 Ghanaian legislative election, he was the Minority Chief Whip in parliament. He was appointed Majority Chief Whip in parliament in January 2009.

As Secretary of State

President Jerry Rawlings nominated him Minister for Youth and Sports at the start of the Fourth Republic. Mensah held the job during both of Rawlings’ periods in office. President John Atta Mills nominated him Minister of Employment and Social Welfare in January 2010, following a cabinet reshuffle.

Mensah served in the Pan-African Parliament until January 2009, when he resigned to become a member of state. Following the retirement of Betty Mould-Iddrisu, he was named Minister for Education in January 2011.

Mensah was unanimously elected to the Council of State for the Greater Accra Region on February 12, 2021.