NDC’s Ama Benyiwa Doe is dead

Reliable information reaching ghananewsonline.com.gh the former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Gomoa West constituency, Ama Benyiwa Doe, who later became the Central Regional Minister under the John Evans Atta Mills administration, has passed on.

Antie Ama as she was affectionately called was reported to have passed away on Sunday morning at the Tema General Hospital.

Born in 1950, she was christened Comfort Saah and comes from Gomoa West in the Central Region of Ghana. She was represented the people of Gomoa West in Parliament from 1992 till 2004, when she was defeated by Joe Kingsley Hackman. She continued to work for the NDC as the National Women’s organizer.

In January 2009 she was nominated by President Mills as the Central Regional Minister in Ghana.

She was a member of the Pan-African Parliament.

Until her death she was a member of the NDC’s Council of Elders