Former Minister of Transport under ex President John Mahama’s tenure Dzifa Attivor has passed on after a short illness.
According to reports, her unfortunate death occurred on Monday, November 15, 2021, at the University of Ghana Medical Centre where she was receiving treatment.
The Deputy Volta Regional Organizer of the NDC, Lord-Chester Ati in a Facebook post confirmed the death of the former minister.
She was 65-years-old.
She was appointed as Minister of Transport in February 2013 by President John Dramani Mahama and resigned in December 2015 due to a controversial bus re-branding contract.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dzifa Aku Attivor was born on 22 February 1956. She started her basic education at the Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School at Abutia-Teti between 1960 and 1970.
Her secondary education was at the Kpedze Secondary School and the Peki Secondary School, both in the Volta Region of Ghana between 1970 and 1975. She then trained at the Government Secretarial School qualifying as a Stenographer Secretary in 1981. She later obtained a Secretarial Silver Diploma from Pitman College, UK.
Her graduate qualifications are 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.
Attivor 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 same bank. Attivor moved into private business. She also set up a Non-Governmental Organization named “Dedefund” which is dedicated to the support of brilliant but needy children, the course of women and the youth, the NGO also cares for the 120 cured lepers at Schohaven Village located in Ho in the Volta Region.
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 the substantive Minister for Transport
Attivor was married to Raphael Napoleon Kwaku Attivor, who passed away in 2019.
AShe has three children. She was a Christian and a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana. Attivor died on 16 November 2021 at the University of Ghana Medical Centre at the age of 65, after having been sick for sometime.
