Rowland Issifu Alhassan

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Rowland Issifu Alhassan (born February 15, 1935 , † April 14, 2014 in Accra ) was a Ghanaian politician and diplomat .

Life

After attending school, he graduated from the Tamale University of Education from 1951 to 1952 . From 1953 to 1954 he worked as a teacher at the Local Council Primary School in Savelugu and from 1955 to 1956 at a practice school. This was followed in 1956/57 by training at the North Western Polytechnic and then until 1961 studying law in the United Kingdom , including at King's College London . He returned to Ghana and worked from 1962 to 1966 as legal advisor and secretary to the chairman of the board of the Agip Ghana Company.

In 1965/66 he was a member of the parliament of Ghana and, like other parliamentarians, was arrested in 1966 after a coup. From 1967 he worked as a lawyer in Ghana, he was the first lawyer from the northern region of Ghana. From 1969 to 1972 he was also a member of the Country Commission, the Aluminum Commission, the Ghana-Ivory Coast Border Demarcation Commission and the Northern Region Development Committee.

In 1979 he was one of the founding members of the Popular Front Party and was the party's coordinator in the northern region of Ghana . From 1979 to 1981 he was again a member of the Ghanaian parliament and spokesman for defense there. During the same period he was also a member of the Valco Trust Fund. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he also worked as a farmer until 2001. For the New Patriotic Party , which was founded in 1992 , he became chairman in the northern region. In the presidential elections in Ghana in 1992 , he ran as part of the presidential candidacy of Albert Adu Boahen as his vice-presidential candidate. Boahen was only runner-up in the official results. He remained committed to the party. He was also one of the founders of the Rotary Club in Tamale and was active in the Tamale school administration.

On October 26, 2001 he took over the office of Ghanaian ambassador to Germany . In March 2005 he was named Ambassador of the Month by Diplomatische Depesche magazine . He held the office of ambassador until September 2006.

He died in the 37th Military Hospital in Accra. The burial took place in Kumbungu with great sympathy .

Alhassan was married to his wife, Janet, whom he had met in Cambridge . He had six children and was of Muslim faith. In addition to English , he spoke Dagbani and Hausa .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Zoure, We miss the wealth of experience of Rowland Issifu Alhassan, April 23, 2014 at www.newsghana.com (English)
  2. ↑ Stephen Zoure, We miss the wealth of experience of Rowland Issifu Alhassan, April 23, 2014 at www.newsghana.com (English)
  3. ↑ RI Alhassan Passes Away from April 16, 2014 at www.modernghana.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Alhassan, Rowland Issifu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1935
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2014
Place of death Accra