Dzifa Aku Attivor, a former Minister of Transport under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has passed on in Accra at age 65, her aide confirms.
The deputy Volta Regional Organiser of the NDC, Lord-Chester Ati, in a Facebook post also confirmed that she died on Tuesday (16 November) after a short illness at the University of Ghana Medical Centre.
Attivor was one of the leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region.
She was appointed in February 2013 as the Minister of Transport until she resigned in December 2015 due to a controversial bus re-branding contract.
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.
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 of transport by president John Atta Mills from 2009 to January 2012. She became the substantive minister when John Mahama became president.
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