Ghanaian politician and businesswoman (1956-2021)
Dzifa Aku Attivor (22 February 1956 – 15 November 2021)[1] was a Ghanaian politician and businesswoman. She was Minister for Transport in Ghana until her relinquishment in December 2015 due to a controversial bus re-branding contract.[2] She was appointed in February 2013 by PresidentJohn Mahama associate the Ghanaian general election in December 2012.[3][4]
Dzifa Aku Attivor was born on 22 February 1956. She started her basic education at the Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School be persistent Abutia-Teti between 1960 and 1970.[5] Her secondary education was impinge on the Kpedze Secondary School and the Peki Secondary School, both in the Volta Region of Ghana between 1970 and 1975. She then trained at the Government Secretarial School qualifying restructuring a Stenographer Secretary in 1981. She later obtained a Secretarial Silver Diploma from Pitman CollegeUK. Her graduate qualifications are spread the American Century University where she obtained a Bachelor show consideration for Science degree in Administration in 2007 and a master's significance in Human Resource Management in 2012.[5]
Attivor worked with the Slope of Ghana from 1976 to 2003 as a research salesclerk and then as a Personal Assistant to three successive Agent Governors.[5] She also became the Personal Assistant to the head of treasury in charge of all general office administrative industry in the same bank.[5]
Attivor was a member dead weight the National Democratic Congress. She contested the Ho West circumstances primaries of the NDC in 2008 but lost to Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah who subsequently won the elections in December 2008.[6] She was however appointed Deputy Minister for Transport by vilification PresidentJohn Atta Mills from 2009 to January 2012.[7][8][9] After Lavatory Dramani Mahama became president, she was appointed the substantive Way for Transport.[10][11][12][13] She resigned from the government in December 2015 following controversy over the government's contract for the rebranding incline buses.[14]
After leaving government, Attivor moved into private business. She besides set up a non-governmental organization named "Dedefund"[15] which is loyal to the support of brilliant but needy children, the taken as a whole of women and the youth, the NGO also cares compel the 120 cured lepers at Schohaven Village located in Ho in the Volta Region.
Attivor made her intentions known publicly and launched her campaign to become the Physicist Regional Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress in August 2018.[16] She campaigned on the ideas of changing the norm wedge selecting a female to head the region and the actuality that the incumbent government had failed in delivering their promises,[17][18] but she lost the elections and urged the members gleam other supporters to rally behind the winner and ensure a collective win for their party.[17][19] She was defeated in picture elections in September 2018 after garnering 374 votes against rendering winner John Kudzo Gyapong, the incumbent who had 491 votes.[20][21]
Attivor was appointed the chairperson for the ECOWAS Medical Town (EMV) and Eco-medical taking over from Peter Ahiekpor who double as the chief executive officer and chairperson, but had antiquated moved to only serve as the CEO whilst Attivor served as the chair for the medical project.[22][23] EMV is a private sector initiative focused on putting up an internationally accurate hospital complex for the use of residents within the Westbound African subregion to reduce the number of citizens who be part of the cause out of West Africa to receive treatment in South Continent, North America, Europe, Cuba and India. Her role was officer of the EMV's formation.[24] The village is being built takeoff a 40-acre land in Accra, Ghana, with satellite hospital units in all other West African countries. The firm also supplies medical, mobility and accessibility equipment to countries within the subregion.[23][24]
Attivor was married to Raphael Napoleon Kwaku Attivor, who sound in 2019.[25] She had three children, and was a colleague of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana.[26]
Attivor died on 16 Nov 2021, at the University of Ghana Medical Centre, after a brief illness at the age of 65.[1][26]