A former Minister for Transport in the John Mahama administration and leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, Madam Dzifa Attivor, has passed on after a short illness at age 65.
Family sources indicated that the former minister of state died in the early hours of yesterday.
Madam Attivor reported said to have been visiting the hospital for treatment for a period until her demise.
She served as a Transport Minister from February 2013 and resigned in December 2015 due to a controversial GH¢3.6 million bus rebranding contract during the Mahama administration.
She reportedly expressed fears of being jailed if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the 2016 general election after her resignation but that did not happen.
The 65-year-old contested the Regional Chairperson position but lost to incumbent John Kudzo Gyapong in 2018.
She also lost a parliamentary primary to Emmanuel Bedzra in the Ho West Constituency.
Madam Attivor was the owner of Ho-based Global FM, and defunct Volta One TV.
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Dzifa Aku Attivor was born on February 22, 1956.
Dzifa Attivor attended the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Primary School at Abutia Teti between 1960 and 1970.
Her secondary education was at the Kpedze Secondary School and the Peki Secondary School — both in the Volta Region — between 1970 and 1975.
She trained at the Government Secretarial School qualifying as a stenographer secretary in 1981 and later obtained a Secretarial Silver Diploma from Pitman College, UK.
Dzifa Attivor worked with the Bank of Ghana (BoG) from 1976 to 2003 as a Research Clerk and then as a Personal Assistant to three successive Deputy Governors.
She also became the Personal Assistant to the Head of Treasury in charge of all general office administrative work at the BoG.
Mrs Dzifa Attivor later moved into private business and set up a non-governmental organisation named ‘Dedefund’.
She was an advocate for cured lepers.
Guan DCE Is Dead
The Guan District Chief Executive (DCE), Marlon Anipa, died yesterday dawn, according to sources.
He was said to have toured some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centres in the district on Monday.
According to information gathered, Mr Anipa was looking fit and did not show any sign of ill-health.
He was unanimously approved as the first DCE of the newly created Guan District in the Oti Region, after his nomination by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
The late DCE was a specialist consultant and a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
In 2016, he contested the Hohoe Constituency seat to represent his people in Parliament on the ticket of the NPP, but was unsuccessful.
He was 63 years.
