A delegation from the Ministry of Energy led by Mrs Wilhelmina Asamoah, Ag. Chief Director and the Director for General Administration earlier today took part in the One Week observation and Memorial Mass in remembrance of late Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda. Hon. Adda was Minister for Energy from 2006-2008
The event which took place at the Christ The King Church ended with a family gathering at the late Adda’s residence at Westlands in Accra.
The Ministry on behalf of the Hon. Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh donated 20 packs of bottled mineral water to support the one week observation .
The Ministry’s delegation included Mr Solomon Adjetey (Director, Power), Mrs. Brenda Laryea Adjapawn (Director HRM) as well as other officials from the Ministry
Hon. Adda’s final funeral rites has been scheduled for February 11th – 13th, 2022 at Navrongo in the Upper East Region.
The late Joseph Kofi Adda, a Financial Economist and a Management Consultant, was born at Navrongo, the capital of the Kassena-Nankana District in the Upper East Region of Ghana 22nd April 1956.
He had his secondary education at St. John’s School, Sekondi, and obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in politics and economics from the Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana, the United States, which he attended between 1979 and 1982.
Between 1982 and 1984, he was at Columbia University, New York, where he studied for a Master’s degree in International Affairs, specialising in Finance and Banking and went on to get a graduate certificate in African Studies from the same university.
Kofi Adda first entered Parliament in 2003 after winning the Navrongo Central parliamentary seat in a by-election after the death of then sitting MP, John Achuliwor and subsequently retained his seat in the 2004 general elections and served in various capacities under the Kufuor administration.
He retained the seat in 2008 when the NPP lost the general elections but lost it in 2012 to the National Democratic Congress candidate Mark Woyongo and won it back in the 2016 election then, lost it in the NPP’s parliamentary primary ahead of the 2020 election.