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Akenten Appiah-Menka
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'''Akenten Appiah-Menka''' was a ghanaian lawyer, politician and businessman. He was the deputy minister for trade and industry and later deputy attorney general in the [[Busia government|second republic]].
==Early life and education==
Appiah-Menka was born on 3 July 1933 at Aboabogya, a town in the Kwabre district near [[Kumasi]] in the [[Ashanti Region]] to Eno Akosua (his mother) and Opanin Amponsah Adiyia (his father) who died when he was a few months old in his mother's womb.
He had his middle school education at Aboabogya Methodist School. He proceded to [[Abuakwa State College]], [[Kibi]] for his cambridge certificate and [[Adisadel College]] for his advanced level certificate. He stowed away from the [[Takoradi]] Port through a French cargo and landed in [[Marseille]]. He was sent to [[England]] on train in 1954. There, he enrolled at the Northwestern Polytechnic, [[London]] (now [[University of North London]]) that same year and obtained his GCE advanced level certificate in 1955. He continued at the [[University of Manchester]] in 1956 to study law and graduated in 1959. He was called to the bar at [[Lincoln's Inn]].<ref name="APPIAH-MENKA">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Career==
He returned to [[Ghana]] in 1960 and entered private legal practice as a barrister and a solicitor working as an associate of the Yaanom Chambers which was then headed by [[Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He worked as a legal practitioner until 1969 when he entered politics.<ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
As a civil servant, he served in the [[John Atta Mills|Atta Mills]] administration when he was appointed a member of the Constitution Review Commission.<ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Politics==
In 1969 he was elected; member of parliament representing the [[Afigya-Kwabre District|Afigya-Kwabre]] constituency.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He contested with Agyemang Alexander Frederick of the [[National Alliance of Liberals]], Baffour Ankoma of the [[United Nationalist Party]] and Otuo Siriboe of the [[People's Action Party]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> That same year he was appointed deputy Minister for Trade.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1971 after the reschuffle he was made deputy Attorney General.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He served in this position until 1972 when the [[Busia government]] was overthrown. He was detained by the [[Supreme Military Council]] (then [[National Redemption Council]]) after the overthrow and was released in 1973.<ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
In 1993 he was a founding member of the [[New Patriotic Party]] , he later became a member of the council of elders of the New Patriotic Party and also Chairman of the council of elders of the party's Ashanti Regional branch.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
During the [[Nana Akufo-Addo|Akufo-Addo]] administration he was appointed chairman of the party/government committee; a committee whose core mandate was to ensure that there was a coordinated and cordial working relation between the incumbent party ([[New Patriotic Party]]) and the government.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Business==
He acquired a 600 acre land in Akrofum near [[Obuasi]] and started a palm oil plantation which became the Ashanti Oil Mills. The company produced edible oil. The business grew to become the Appiah Menka Complex Ltd that manufactured ''Appino soap''; a popular detergent soap of the 1980s and crocodile pale.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN"/> The soap production begun in Kumasi through a joint venture with the National Investment Bank. He was Managing Director<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and later Chairman of the Appiah Menka Complex Ltd, the Ashanti Oil Mills, and the Appiah Menka plantations.<ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/><ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/> He was in jail from 1983 to 1984 over a land despute in the Nzema area of the [[Western Region (Ghana)|Western Region]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
Due to his industrial exploits he was once made President of the [[Association of Ghana Industries]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Personal life==
He married Mrs. Rosemond Appiah-Menka (''neé'' Gyamfi) in 1960. His hobbies included golf, football and cartoon reading.<ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
==Death and tributes==
He died on 13 February, 2018. All [[National Patriotic Party|NPP]] flags in the various regions and constituencies of the country were flown at half-mast for seven days following his death.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> His burial ceremony was held on 24 May, 2018 in [[Kumasi]]. He was burried in his hometown Aboabogya.<ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/>
[[Nana Akufo-Addo]]; president of the republic of [[Ghana]] paid a tribute to him saying: <blockquote>"I have lost a valued senior counsellor. He was an invaluable and constant source of advice and prayers for me and was overjoyed when I won the presidential election in 2016."</blockquote><ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/>
The former president of [[Ghana]]; [[John Mahama|John Dramani Mahama]] also paid tribute to him saying: <blockquote>"The death of Akenten Appiah Menka should charge Ghanaians with the responsibility to continue the pursuit of constitutionalism."</blockquote><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of MPs elected in the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election]]
* [[Busia government]]
==References==
[[Category:1933 births]]
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:Akan people]]
[[Category:Ghanaian lawyers]]
[[Category:Ghanaian MPs 1969–72]]
[[Category:Alumni of Adisadel College]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester]]
[[Category:Progress Party (Ghana) politicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Ghanaian politicians]]
[[Category:Ghanaian men]]
==Early life and education==
Appiah-Menka was born on 3 July 1933 at Aboabogya, a town in the Kwabre district near [[Kumasi]] in the [[Ashanti Region]] to Eno Akosua (his mother) and Opanin Amponsah Adiyia (his father) who died when he was a few months old in his mother's womb.
He had his middle school education at Aboabogya Methodist School. He proceded to [[Abuakwa State College]], [[Kibi]] for his cambridge certificate and [[Adisadel College]] for his advanced level certificate. He stowed away from the [[Takoradi]] Port through a French cargo and landed in [[Marseille]]. He was sent to [[England]] on train in 1954. There, he enrolled at the Northwestern Polytechnic, [[London]] (now [[University of North London]]) that same year and obtained his GCE advanced level certificate in 1955. He continued at the [[University of Manchester]] in 1956 to study law and graduated in 1959. He was called to the bar at [[Lincoln's Inn]].<ref name="APPIAH-MENKA">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Career==
He returned to [[Ghana]] in 1960 and entered private legal practice as a barrister and a solicitor working as an associate of the Yaanom Chambers which was then headed by [[Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He worked as a legal practitioner until 1969 when he entered politics.<ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
As a civil servant, he served in the [[John Atta Mills|Atta Mills]] administration when he was appointed a member of the Constitution Review Commission.<ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Politics==
In 1969 he was elected; member of parliament representing the [[Afigya-Kwabre District|Afigya-Kwabre]] constituency.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He contested with Agyemang Alexander Frederick of the [[National Alliance of Liberals]], Baffour Ankoma of the [[United Nationalist Party]] and Otuo Siriboe of the [[People's Action Party]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> That same year he was appointed deputy Minister for Trade.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1971 after the reschuffle he was made deputy Attorney General.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He served in this position until 1972 when the [[Busia government]] was overthrown. He was detained by the [[Supreme Military Council]] (then [[National Redemption Council]]) after the overthrow and was released in 1973.<ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
In 1993 he was a founding member of the [[New Patriotic Party]] , he later became a member of the council of elders of the New Patriotic Party and also Chairman of the council of elders of the party's Ashanti Regional branch.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
During the [[Nana Akufo-Addo|Akufo-Addo]] administration he was appointed chairman of the party/government committee; a committee whose core mandate was to ensure that there was a coordinated and cordial working relation between the incumbent party ([[New Patriotic Party]]) and the government.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Business==
He acquired a 600 acre land in Akrofum near [[Obuasi]] and started a palm oil plantation which became the Ashanti Oil Mills. The company produced edible oil. The business grew to become the Appiah Menka Complex Ltd that manufactured ''Appino soap''; a popular detergent soap of the 1980s and crocodile pale.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN"/> The soap production begun in Kumasi through a joint venture with the National Investment Bank. He was Managing Director<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and later Chairman of the Appiah Menka Complex Ltd, the Ashanti Oil Mills, and the Appiah Menka plantations.<ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/><ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/> He was in jail from 1983 to 1984 over a land despute in the Nzema area of the [[Western Region (Ghana)|Western Region]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
Due to his industrial exploits he was once made President of the [[Association of Ghana Industries]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Personal life==
He married Mrs. Rosemond Appiah-Menka (''neé'' Gyamfi) in 1960. His hobbies included golf, football and cartoon reading.<ref name="AKENTEN APPIAH-MENKA"/>
==Death and tributes==
He died on 13 February, 2018. All [[National Patriotic Party|NPP]] flags in the various regions and constituencies of the country were flown at half-mast for seven days following his death.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> His burial ceremony was held on 24 May, 2018 in [[Kumasi]]. He was burried in his hometown Aboabogya.<ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/>
[[Nana Akufo-Addo]]; president of the republic of [[Ghana]] paid a tribute to him saying: <blockquote>"I have lost a valued senior counsellor. He was an invaluable and constant source of advice and prayers for me and was overjoyed when I won the presidential election in 2016."</blockquote><ref name="A. APPIAH-MENKA/>
The former president of [[Ghana]]; [[John Mahama|John Dramani Mahama]] also paid tribute to him saying: <blockquote>"The death of Akenten Appiah Menka should charge Ghanaians with the responsibility to continue the pursuit of constitutionalism."</blockquote><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of MPs elected in the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election]]
* [[Busia government]]
==References==
[[Category:1933 births]]
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:Akan people]]
[[Category:Ghanaian lawyers]]
[[Category:Ghanaian MPs 1969–72]]
[[Category:Alumni of Adisadel College]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester]]
[[Category:Progress Party (Ghana) politicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Ghanaian politicians]]
[[Category:Ghanaian men]]
June 03, 2019 at 08:30PM
