Joseph Yieleh Chireh

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Joseph Yieleh Chireh (born July 8, 1954 in Lassia Tuolo , Upper West Region ) is a Ghanaian pharmacist , judicial officer , ambassador and politician ( NDC ). Since January 2011 he has been Minister of Health in the Atta Mills cabinet .

Life

Education and private matters

Chireh was born on July 8, 1954 in Lassia Tuolo in the Upper West Region in northwestern Ghana . In 1975 he began studying at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi ; he completed this in 1979 as a Bachelor of Pharmacy . Between 2001 and 2006, Chireh attended the Ghana School of Law in Accra , where he qualified as a barrister .

Chireh belongs to Christianity . He is married and has four kids.

Political career

In the first administration of President Jerry John Rawlings , Chireh, a member of the Social Democratic National Democratic Congress , was regional minister for the Upper West Region. Between 1997 and 2001 he was Ambassador to Algeria . After the NPP -Regierung under President John Kufuor Chireh was as Minister of Local Government and Rural Development (February 2009 English Minister of Local Government and Rural Development sworn). In early 2011, President John Evans Atta Mills reshuffled his cabinet, after which Chireh moved to the Ministry of Health.

In the parliamentary elections in 2004 and 2008 , Chireh entered the Ghanaian parliament for the Wa West constituency . He received 66.35 (2004) and 49.7 percent (2008) of the valid votes cast.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First batch of Ministers Sworn In ( English ) In: ghanaweb.com . Retrieved August 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ Cabinet reshuffle: Zita dropped, Betty for education ( English ) In: ghanaweb.com . Retrieved August 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ ELECTIONS 2004: Ghana's Parliamentary and Presidential Elections ( English , PDF, 1.5 MB): fes.de . Retrieved August 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Electoral Commission of Ghana: Parliamentary Election Results (2008) ( English , PDF, 23 kB) In: ec.gov.gh . Retrieved November 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Chireh, Joseph Yieleh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian pharmacist, judicial officer, ambassador and politician (NDC)
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lassia Tuolo , Upper West Region