Enoch Teye Mensah
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Hon. Enoch Teye Mensah |
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| Member of the Ghana Parliament for Ningo-Prampram |
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Assumed office January 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Stanley Basil Bade Carboo |
| Majority | 12,143 |
| Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing | |
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Assumed office Jan 2012 |
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| President | John Atta Mills |
| Preceded by | Alban Bagbin |
| Minister for Employment and Social Welfare | |
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In office January 2010 – January 2012 |
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| President | John Atta Mills |
| Preceded by | Stephen Amoanor Kwao |
| Succeeded by | Moses Asaga |
| Minister for Youth and Sports | |
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In office January 1993 – January 2001 |
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| 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 |
| 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 E. T. Mensah (not to be confused with Ghanaian musician Emmanuel Tettey Mensah).
Mensah studied accounting at the SNAPS College of Accountancy, completed his studies there in 1968.
During the time of the PNDC military regime in Ghana, he 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. Mensah 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, holding the seat for almost a decade. 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. 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.
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