NDC’s Sherry Ayittey dies aged 75
Ms Ayittey died today (Saturday 22 July 2023) in the United States. She is said to have been unwell for several weeks
Sherry Ayittey, the minister of environment, science and technology in the government of President John Evans Atta Mills, is dead.
Ms Ayittey also served as the health minister from February 2013 to June 2014 and subsequently as the minister of fisheries and aquaculture development from 2014 to 2017 in the erstwhile John Mahama government
According to a statement issued by the head of the Ayittey family, Ms Ayittey died today (Saturday 22 July 2023) in the United States of America.
She is said to have been unwell for many weeks.
“The head of the family, Nii Kofi Ayittey of Akwetey Nantan, Osu Alata, announce with deep sorrow the death of their beloved daughter and sister Honourable Hanny Sherry Ayittey on 22 July 2023.
“The family will announce further details in due course,” the signed statement issued by the family said.
Life and education
Hanny Sherry Ayittey was a politician and an active member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Born on 8 February 1948, Ms Ayittey attended Labone Secondary School (now Labone Senior High School) and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and a Master of Science degree in industrial microbiology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi.
She was a fellow of two American universities of management, namely Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Sherry Ayittey was a prominent member of the 31st December Women’s Movement, a non-governmental organisation affiliated to the National Democratic Congress whose president is Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the widow of Jerry Rawlings, the former president of Ghana who died in 2020.
She was the projects and programmes officer for the movement.
She was re-elected as a vice-chair of the NDC in December last year.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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