Enoch Teye Mensah

Hon. Enoch Teye Mensah
Member of the Ghana Parliament for Ningo-Prampram
Incumbent
Assumed office Jan 1997
Preceded by	Stanley Basil Bade Carboo
Majority	12,143
Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing
Incumbent
Assumed office Jan 2012
President	John Atta Mills
Preceded by	Alban Bagbin
Minister for Employment and Social Welfare
In office Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
President	John Atta Mills
Preceded by	Stephen Amoanor Kwao
Succeeded by	Moses Asaga
Minister for Youth and Sports
In office Jan 1993 – Jan 2001
President	Jerry Rawlings
Preceded by	Arnold Quainoo
Succeeded by	Mallam Issah
Personal details
Born	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
Religion	Christianity
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 ET Mensah.

He studied accounting at the SNAPS College of Accountancy which he completed in 1968.^[1] During the time of the PNDC military regime in Ghana, ET Mensah 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. He 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, a seat he has held since then. 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. He 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]

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

• Rawlings government
• List of Mills government ministers

References

1. "HON. MENSAH, ENOCH TEYE". Parliament of Ghana. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
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. 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.

External links and sources

• Profile on Parliament of Ghana website