Enoch Teye Mensah obituary

Enoch Teye Mensah commonly known as E. T. Mensah was a Ghanaian politician. He was a Minister for Education and a Member of Parliament in Ghana from January 1997 till January 2017.

Enoch Teye Mensah’s obituary

Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Enoch Teye Mensah has sadly passed on at the age of 77.

The veteran politician and former Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Pampram Constituency reportedly died on Sunday evening at a hospital in South Africa, where he was receiving treatment for his illness.

Mensah was a Ghanaian politician who stood for the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 1996 and was elected member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, holding the seat for almost a decade. He 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 Ghanaian General Election.

He polled a total valid vote cast of 15,677 representing 56.10% defeating his opponents; Desmond Nene Quaynor polled 1,569 which represented 5.60% of the total votes cast and Gwendolyn Sara Addo an Independent candidate who also polled 1,537 representing 5.50% under the membership of the National Democratic Congress.