Former Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor is dead
Former Transport Minister Madam Dzifa Attivor has died at the University of Ghana Medical Centre after a short illness, according to family sources.
Madam Dzifa Attivor was appointed by Professor John Evans Atta Mills as a Deputy Minister of Transport in his cabinet in January 2009. She was later elevated to the substantive Transport Minister position after John Dramani Mahama won the 2012 election.
Since February 2013 when she was elevated as Minister, she maintained the post until 2015 when she resigned as a result of the controversial bus branding controversy where she was allegedly involved in the questionable deal that awarded GHS3.6 million to Smarttys Management and Productions Limited.
She was subsequently charged with financial irregularities in the awarding of the GH3.6 million contract to Smarttys Production for the rebranding of 116 Metro Mass Transit buses that year.
Madam Attivor following her resignation expressed fear she could be hunted and imprisoned if the New Patriotic Party won the 2016 general elections.
She later contested for the chairmanship position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region but was defeated by incumbent John Kudzo Gyapong in the 2018 elections.
Also, she had previously run in the NDC’s Ho West Parliamentary Primaries in 2008 but lost to Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzra who went on to win the seat for the NDC.
She was married to Raphael Napoleon Kwaku Attivor who passed on in 2019. She had three children and was a Christian and fellowshipped with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. She was 65 years old.
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