The mortal remains of the late Enoch Teye Mensah has been laid in state at his residence at Prampram on Thursday January 4.
This ceremony will be followed by the final burial service on Friday, January 5, at the Forecourt of the State House.
The late E.T Mensah was former MP for the Ningo-Prampram Constituency and member of the Council of State.
A Thanksgiving Service will also be held in his honour at the Methodist Church in Prampram on Sunday, January 7.
Mr E.T Mensah died at age 77 in South Africa in October 2023. He has been unwell for a while now.
He was born on 17 May 1946 and comes from Prampram in the Greater Accra Region Ghana. He schooled at the SNAPS College of Accountancy, which he completed in 1968. He also had his RSA III in 1970, and he became a fellow of the Institute of Financial Accountants in 1986. He was an Account Officer and worked at the University of Ghana, Legon as Accounting Officer.
During the PNDC military regime in Ghana, he was Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). He joined the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992.
Mr E.T Mensah first went into parliament after he was elected as a member of Parliament of the second parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana during the 1996 general election.
At the beginning of the Fourth Republic, he was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports by President Jerry Rawlings. Mr 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.
He was a member of the Pan-African Parliament until January 2009, when he resigned. In January 2011, he was appointed Minister for Education.
On 12 February 2021, Mr Mensah was unanimously elected as the representative of Council of State for the Greater Accra Region.
Mensah was married with seven children. – Wikipedia