George Yankey

George Sipa-Adjah Yankey
Minister for Health
In office Feb 2009 – Oct 2009
President	John Atta Mills
Preceded by	Courage Quashigah
Succeeded by	Benjamin Kunbuor
Personal details
Born	Nzema Region, Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian
Political party	National Democratic Congress
Profession	Lawyer

George Sipa-Adjah Yankey is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He is the current CEO of Ghana Gas and served as Minister for Health of Ghana. He obtained his PhD in 1987 from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

Yankey worked in the Ministry of Finance of Ghana and was the head of its Legal department between 1989 and 1995. He became Director of the Legal, Private Sector and Financial Institutions Department at the same ministry from 1996.

Yankey is a member of the National Democratic Congress. After the 2008 presidential election, President John Atta Mills appointed him Minister for Health in his government in February 2009.

Following investigations conducted by the Serious Fraud Office of the United Kingdom, Mabey and Johnson Limited, a supplier of steel bridging based at Twyford, Berkshire was prosecuted in 2009. This followed the company disclosing that it had "sought to influence decision-makers in public contracts in Jamaica and Ghana" between 1993 and 2001. Five Ghanaian officials, including Yankey, who was alleged to have received £15,000, were cited by the company. Yankey denied these allegations in a statement issued after Mabey and Johnson had been fined £6.6 million by the Southwark Crown Court. Despite his denials however, Yankey resigned as Minister for Health in order to concentrate on clearing his name. His resignation was accepted by President Mills, who in addition, invited the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice to investigate the case.

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