Mrs. Dzifa Attivor was one of the prominent women in Ghana. She became the Minister for Transport in Ghana until her resignation in December 2015 under the reign of the former president John Dramani Mahama.
Dzifa Early Life
Mrs. Dzifa Attivor was born on 22 February 1956. She was 65 when she died on Tuesday 16th November 2021. The politician and businesswoman was the Minister for Transport until her resignation due to a controversial GHS 3.6m bus re-branding contract in former President John Dramani Mahama’s administration.
Dzifa Education
Mrs. Dzifa started her basic education at the Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School at Abutia- Teti. She furthered her senior high education at Kpendze Secondary School and Peki Secondary School in the Volta Region Of Ghana.
After her Senior high education, she was trained at the Government Secretarial school qualifying as a Stenographer Secretary. She later obtains a Secretarial silver diploma from Pitman College, UK.
As intelligent as she was, Dzifa had her graduate qualifications from the American Century University where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Administration in 2007 and a master’s degree in Human Resource Management in 2012.
Dzifa Career
Dzifa Ativor worked with the Bank of Ghana from 1976 to 2003 as a research clerk and then as a Personal Assistant to three successive Deputy Governors. She also became the Personal Assistant to the head of treasury in charge of all general office administrative work in the Bank.
Mrs. Dzifa Attivor later moved into a private business and set up a Non-Governmental Organization named “Dedefund”.
Straight to politics, Attivor was a member of the National Democratic Congress. She contested the Ho West constituency primaries of the NDC in 2008 but lost to Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah who subsequently won the elections in December 2008. She was however appointed Deputy Minister for Transport by President John Atta Mills from 2009 to January 2012. After John Dramani Mahama became President, she was appointed as the Minister for Transport.
Attivor was appointed as the chairperson for the ECOWAS Medical Village (EMV) and Eco-medical taking over from Peter Ahiekpor who doubled as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson but had been moved to only serve as the CEO whilst Attivor served as the chair for the medical project.
Dzifa Husband
Mrs. Dzifa Aku Attivor was married to the late Raphael Napoleon Kwaku Attivor, who passed away in 2019. The couples were blessed with three children.
Dzifa Attivor Death
Mrs. Attivor, the former Transport Minister died on Tuesday morning 14th November 2021 at the University of Ghana Medical Center after falling ill for a short period.
Dzifa Contacts
On Twitter, She’s known as @DzifaAttivor
Facebook @Dzifa Attivor
On Instagram @dattivor22
SOURCE: GOSSIPS24.COM
