Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Politician and Former Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
Was

Politician 

From

Ghana 

Type

Politics 

Gender male
Birth 12 December 1912
Death 1 July 1978, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
(aged 65 years)

Aaron Eugene Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta (12 December 1912 – July 1978) was a politician and also the fourth Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.

Ofori-Atta was a Minister for Local Government in the Convention People’s Party (CPP) government of Kwame Nkrumah in the first government of Ghana. He also served as the Minister for Justice in the same government.

He was later appointed Speaker of Parliament on 10 June 1965 in the First Republic of Ghana. He remained speaker until parliament was suspended by the National Liberation Council, formed after the coup d’état that ended the First Republic. He died at Accra Military Hospital in 1978. Ofori-Atta is the uncle of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a minister in the Fourth Republic of Ghana.

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