Enoch Mensah

Education

He studied accounting at the SNAPS College of Accountancy which he completed in 1968.

Career

He is popularly referred to as ET Mensah. 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 (American Medical Association) akin to being the Mayor of the City of Accra. 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 Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, a seat he has held since then He was the Minority Chief Whip in parliament prior to the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2008.

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.

In January 2011, he was appointed Minister for Education following the resignation of Betty Mould-Iddrisu.

On 21 November, 2015 he lost the NDC primaries to Sam George. Mensah is married with seven children. He later had to leave the school for Mawuli Secondary School at Ho, Ghana due to disciplinary problems.

Achievements

• 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.

Politics

He joined the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992.

Membership

He is also the Minister for Education and a Member of Parliament in Ghana. After the NDC lost the 2000 elections, he continued as a member of parliament. He was a member of the Pan-African Parliament until January 2009 when he resigned after being appointed a member of state.