Enoch Teye Mensah

Hon.
Enoch Teye Mensah
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Ningo-Prampram
Assumed office
January 1997
Preceded by Stanley Basil Bade Carboo
Majority 12,143
Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing
Assumed office
Jan 2012
President John Atta Mills
Preceded by Alban Bagbin
Minister for Employment and Social Welfare
In office
January 2010 – January 2012
President John Atta Mills
Preceded by Stephen Amoanor Kwao
Succeeded by Moses Asaga
Minister for Youth and Sports
In office
January 1993 – January 2001
President Jerry Rawlings
Preceded by Arnold Quainoo
Succeeded by Mallam Issah
Personal details
Born (1956-05-17) 17 May 1956
Koforidua, Ghana
Nationality Ghanaian
Political party National Democratic Congress
Children 7
Committees Public Accounts Committee
House Committee
Finance Committee
Mines and Energy
Trade, Industry and Tourism
Awards Companion of the Order of the Volta

Enoch Teye Mensah (born 17 May 1946) is a politician and the Ghanaian Minister for Employment and Social Welfare. He is also the Minister for Education and a Member of Parliament in Ghana. He is popularly referred to as E. T. Mensah (not to be confused with Ghanaian musician Emmanuel Tettey Mensah).

Biography

Mensah studied accounting at the SNAPS College of Accountancy, completed his studies there in 1968.[1]

During the time of the PNDC military regime in Ghana, he was for a long time the 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. 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. He also stood for the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 1996 and was elected MP for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, holding the seat for almost a decade. After the NDC lost the 2000 elections, he continued as a member of parliament. He was the Minority Chief Whip in parliament prior to the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2008.[2] In January 2009, he became the Majority Chief Whip in parliament. 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.[3] In January 2011, he was appointed Minister for Education following the resignation of Betty Mould-Iddrisu.[4]

On 21 November 2015 he lost the NDC primaries to Sam George.[5]

E. T. Mensah was awarded the Companion of the Order of the Volta by President Kufuor's government.[2]

Personal life

Mensah is married with seven children. One of them, Jerry Teye Mensah achieved notoriety when he claimed to have been kidnapped in an attempt to cover his absence from Mfantsipim School. He later had to leave the school for Mawuli Secondary School at Ho, Ghana due to disciplinary problems.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "HON. MENSAH, ENOCH TEYE". Parliament of Ghana. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  2. 1 2 "President Kufuor nominates 241 for National Awards". Radio Gold Online. 1999-11-30. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  3. ↑ "Ghana reconstitutes members for Pan-African Parliament". MyJoyOnline. 2010-03-22. Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  4. ↑ "E.T. Mensah Takes Over Education". General News. Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Afanyi Dadzie, Ebenezer (22 November 2015). "#NDCDecides: Sam George crushes Prampram ‘Mugabe’ ET Mensah". CitifmOnline. CitiFM. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "E.T Mensah's son now in Mawuli School". ModernGhana.com. 2001-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by
 Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram
1997 – present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Arnold Quainoo		 Minister for Youth and Sports
1993 – 2001 		Succeeded by
Mallam Issah
Preceded by
Stephen Amoanor Kwao		 Minister for Employment and Social Welfare
2010 – 2012 		Succeeded by
Moses Asaga
Preceded by
Alban Bagbin		 Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing
2012 – present 		Incumbent
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