Dzifa Attivor, a former Transport Minister, passed on at the age of 65.
Madam Attivor died on Monday, November 15, 2021, at the University of Ghana Medical Centre after battling an illness for some time.
This was verified by her assistant and confirmed by the NDC’s Deputy Volta Regional Organizer, Lord-Chester Ati, in a Facebook post.
Her family anticipates receiving sympathizers to her Adentan mansion in Accra beginning today, Tuesday, November 16, 2021.
Dzifa Attivor is a politician and entrepreneur who was born on February 22, 1956.
She served as Ghana’s Minister of Transport until December 2015, when she resigned owing to a controversial bus rebranding deal.
President John Mahama appointed her in February 2013 after the Ghanaian general election in December 2012.
Early Childhood and Education
Between 1960 and 1970, Dzifa Aku Attivor attended the Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School in Abutia-Teti.
Between 1970 and 1975, she attended the Kpedze Secondary School and the Peki Secondary School in Ghana’s Volta Region.
She then attended the Government Secretarial School and graduated as a Stenographer Secretary in 1981. She subsequently earned a Secretarial Silver Diploma from Pitman College in the United Kingdom.
Her graduate studies were completed at American Century University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Administration in 2007 and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management in 2012.
Career
From 1976 through 2003, Attivor worked for the Bank of Ghana as a research clerk and later as a Personal Assistant to three consecutive Deputy Governors. In the same bank, she also became the Personal Assistant to the Head of Treasury, in the responsibility of all general office administrative tasks.
Attivor went into private practice. She also founded the Non-Governmental Organization ‘Dedefund,’ which is committed to the help of talented but needy children, the advancement of women, and the advancement of youth. The NGO also looks for the 120 healed lepers in Schohaven Village in Ho, Volta Region.
Politics
Attivor is a National Democratic Congress member. She ran in the NDC’s Ho West constituency primaries in 2008 but lost to Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, who went on to win the elections in December 2008.
President John Atta Mills did, however, designate her as Deputy Minister of Transport from 2009 until January 2012. She was named substantive Minister of Transport after John Dramani Mahama was elected President.
Bid for Regional Chairperson
In August 2018, Attivor made her intentions known to the public and began her campaign to become the Volta Regional Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress.
She campaigned on the idea of breaking the mold by appointing a woman to lead the region and on the fact that the incumbent government had failed to deliver on their promises, but she lost the elections and urged her party’s members and supporters to rally behind the winner and ensure a collective victory for their party.
She was defeated in the September 2018 elections after receiving 374 votes as opposed to the incumbent, John Kudzo Gyapong, who received 491 votes.
International Collaboration
Attivor was selected as the chairwoman for the ECOWAS Medical Village (EMV) and Eco-medical, succeeding Peter Ahiekpor, who had previously served as both the CEO and the Chairperson but had been reduced to merely serving as the CEO while Attivor served as the chairperson for the medical project.
EMV is a private-sector effort aimed at constructing a globally recognized hospital complex for inhabitants of the West African sub-region in order to minimize the number of individuals who go outside of West Africa for treatment in South Africa, North America, Europe, Cuba, and India.
Her job was to supervise the installation of the EMV. The town is being built on a 40-acre plot of land near Accra, Ghana, with satellite medical units in every other West African country.
In addition, the company provides medical, mobility, and accessibility equipment to nations in the sub-region.
Private Life
Raphael Napoleon Kwaku Attivor, Attivor’s husband, died in 2019. She has 3 children. She is a Christian who belongs to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana.
Read Also: Ken Agyapong demands $9.5m in defamation lawsuit against Kevin Taylor
