Joseph Kofi Adda, a former Sanitation Minister, has died.
The former Upper East Region Member of Parliament for Navrongo died at the age of 65.
Mr. Adda died in the early hours of Thursday, October 14, 2021, upon arriving at the Legon Hospital, according to a relative.
The relative informed that he had been battling illness for many years.
During President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first term, Mr. Adda also served as Minister for Aviation.
He was also a Management Consultant and a Financial Economist.
Kennedy Nyarko Osei, a former Deputy Minister for Agriculture, also confirmed his former colleague’s death on social media and sent condolences to the family.
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Kofi Adda’s Biography
Joseph Adda was born in Navrongo, the capital of Ghana’s Kassena-Nankana District in the country’s Upper East Region.
He completed his secondary school at St. John’s School in Sekondi and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in politics and economics from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana, USA, between 1979 and 1982.
Between 1982 to 1984, he attended Columbia University in New York, where he earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs with a specialization in Finance and Banking.
He then received a graduate degree in African Studies from the same institution.
He earned a degree in French language and culture from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, in 1989.
A career in politics
Mr. Adda first joined Parliament in 2003, when he won a by-election to the Navrongo Parliamentary seat.
This occurred after the death of its incumbent MP, John Achuliwor. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2004 general election.
Mr. Adda worked in a variety of positions under the Kuffour administration.
He was named Minister of Manpower Development and Employment in 2005, and he subsequently became Minister of Energy in April 2006.
When the NPP lost the general elections in 2008, Joseph Kofi Adda maintained his seat, but he lost it in 2012 to Mark Woyongo.
He won the seat in the 2016 election but lost it in the NPP’s parliamentary primary ahead of the 2020 election to Upper East Regional Minister Tangoba Abayage.
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