Zita Okaikoi

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Zita Okaikoi (2011)

Zita Sabah Okaikoi (also: Sabah Zita Benson; * around 1975 in Ghana ) is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat who was Minister for Tourism in Ghana and later Ghana's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Life

Okaikoi is a graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the Ghana School of Law .

From January 2009 she was the first female information minister in the government of the National Democratic Congress under President John Atta Mills . She held this position during her first year in the Mills administration. Okaikoi was appointed Minister of Tourism by President Mills in January 2010 as part of a cabinet reshuffle .

When she was pregnant with her second daughter in June 2010, she was accused by some media outlets of choosing to give birth in the United States - criticizing both for being a privileged woman and facing the dangers of high infant mortality from her home country and for giving her child US citizenship in this way.

From 2013 to 2017 she was Ghana's ambassador to the Czech Republic. The accreditation also covered Slovakia and Hungary.

family

After separating from Andrew Okaikoi and marrying for the second time in August 2017, she took the name Sabah Zita Benson.

Web links

Commons : Zita Sabah Okaikoi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TNJ Staff: Sabah Zita Okaikoi - The Network Journal. In: tnj.com. Retrieved January 21, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Ambassadorial appointments: Tony Aidoo for Holland, Zita for South Africa. In: adomonline.com. web.archive.org, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ President Mills is responsible for all the attacks on Zita Okaikoi the Information Minister. (No longer available online.) In: Ghana Tourist Villas. October 6, 2009, archived from the original on July 11, 2011 ; accessed on January 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ President Mills reshuffles Ministers. In: ghanaweb.com. January 25, 2010, accessed January 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Zita Gets Baby Girl. In: ghanaweb.com. July 30, 2010, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Transient Justice: Zita Okaikoi and Atta Mills hate Ghana. In: ghanaweb.com. June 8, 2010, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Fashion et al: Ghana Rising: Zita Okaikoi comes under attack as she flies to the States to give birth ..... In: Ghana Rising. June 11, 2010, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ghana; NDC Women Mad at Sir John . In: Africa News . January 11, 2011: "" The women of MOG, know as a matter of fact that the family of Sir John, including his wife live in the United Kingdom, and conventional wisdom informs that most of his children were delivered in the same country. So what right has he got to criticize someone who decides to have her baby delivered abroad, if that person could afford it, "they contended."
  9. ↑ Ghana Ambassador at MENDELU - Mendel University in Brno. In: mendelu.cz. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Zita remarries, changes maiden name. In: ghanaweb.com. August 6, 2017, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Okaikoi, Zita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Okaikoi, Zita Sabah (full name); Benson, Sabah Zita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH around 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghana