Esther Lilly Nkansah
A former
Western Regional Minister in the erstwhile Jerry John Rawlings’ National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government, Esther Lilly Nkansah, has passed on. She was 71.
The late
former regional minister who was ill for a while died while receiving treatment
at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi in December 2019.
Japheth
Baidoo, Western Regional Organizer of the NDC, confirmed the sad story and said
funeral rites for the late former minister would be held from February 7 to 9,
2020.
The late
Esther Lily Nkansah was a lawyer and the last Western Regional minister to
serve under the Rawlings’ administration from 1997 to 2000.
In 2010, she
was named in a 10-member board of Bank of Ghana by former President John Atta
Mills to assist the government with its ‘Better Ghana Agenda’
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi
