Enoch Teye Mensah commonly known as E. T. Mensah was a Ghanaian politician. He was a Minister for Education and a Member of Parliament in Ghana from January 1997 till January 2017.
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Mensah was married with seven children.
As a staunch member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), he entered Parliament on January 7, 1997, on the ticket of the NDC representing the people of Ningo-Prampram and held the seat till January 6, 2017.
He also served as Minister for Youth and Sports in former President J.J. Rawlings’s government for two terms.
In January 2010, after a cabinet reshuffle, President John Evans Atta Mills appointed him Minister for Employment and Social Welfare. On 12 February 2021, E.T. Mensah was elected as the representative of the Greater Accra Region on the Council of State.
Mensah studied accounting at the SNAPS College of Accountancy and 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.