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  • Former NPP Chairman, Harona Esseku passes on

    Harona Esseku, a former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has passed away.

    The stalwart passed away at 88 years old on Wednesday August 3rd.

    Harona Esseku served as Communications and Transport Minister in the Second Republic.

    The bereaved family in a press statement issued on Thursday, August 4, said, “burial and funeral arrangements will be announced later.”

     

  • NPP’s Harona Esseku dies at age 88

    A former National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP), Harona Esseku, is dead.

    According to sources, he passed away on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at the age of 88.

    In his political career, Mr Esseku served as the Second Republic’s Minister of Communications and Transport.

    The Esseku family in a brief statement as quoted by Accra-based Citi FM said, “burial and funeral arrangements will be announced later.”

    The late Harona Esseku was honoured with the Order of the Star of Ghana award by former President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2007.

    He was married to Janet Esseku, a broadcaster who worked with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

    About his Political Career

    The late Harona Esseku’s political career began in 1968 when he was chosen to represent the Awutu, Effutu, Gomoa, and Agona people in the constituent assembly when the second republic’s constitution was being drafted.

    The late Harona Esseku’s political career started in 1968 when he was elected by the Awutu’s, Effutu’s, Gomoa’s and Agona’s to represent them in the constituent assembly during the drafting of the constitution of the second republic.

    He was the founding member of the Progress Party in 1969 and was elected on August 29, that year, to be the MP for Awutu-Effutu-Senya Constituency.

    Harona Esseku became the youngest Cabinet Minister in the Busia administration at age 35. He was the Minister for Transport and Communications.

    At the onset of the third republic, he became a founding member of the Popular Front Party (PFP) and later a member of the steering committee of the party. In 1992, he was a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and was elected the chairman from 2001 to 2005.

     

    Source: Ghanaweb