A former Minister of Transport and leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, Madam Dzifa Attivor has been announced dead.
According to family sources, the 65-year-old politician cum businesswoman passed on in Accra after a short illness Tuesday morning.
Tributes from politicians, the business community, and friends are pouring in since her death was announced.
“Oh nooo! What a loss! May her soul rest in perfect peace. Such a kind-hearted woman. You have touched some of us personally.”
RIP, Mum. “Volta Development Foundation will forever be grateful to you for your vision towards the creation of the Forum… You are such a beautiful, lovely, nice, God-fearing personality. We will soldier on…,” are some of the tributes.
The Volta Regional Secretary of the NDC, James Gunu, said an official statement would be issued soon.
Dzifa Aku Ativor was born on 22 February 1956. She was the Minister for Transport until her resignation due to a controversial GHS 3.6m bus re-branding contract scandal during former President John Dramani Mahama’s administration.
Mrs. Ativor attended the Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School at Abutia Teti between 1960 and 1970.
She had her secondary education at the Kpedze Secondary School and then Peki Secondary School, both in the Volta Region between 1970 and 1975.
She further went to train at the Government Secretarial School to qualify as a Stenographer Secretary in 1981and later obtained a Secretarial Silver Diploma from Pitman College, UK.
Mrs. Ativor worked with the Bank of Ghana from 1976 to 2003 as a research clerk and then as a Personal Assistant to three successive Deputy Governors.
She also became the Personal Assistant to the head of treasury in charge of all general office administrative work in the Bank.
Mrs Dzifa Attivor later moved into private business and set up a Non-Governmental Organization known as “Dedefund”.
She became an advocate for cured lepers.
