433:(PFP) and later a member of the steering committee of the party. However, he and other former Progress Party leaders were barred from public office in the Third Republic due to adverse findings against them by a committee after the fall of the Second Republic. Their collective petition to have their ban overturned through a court hearing failed.
321:(8 August 1934 – 3 August 2022) was a Ghanaian politician who served as Ghana's Minister for Transport and Communications from 1969 to 1971. He was approved as a cabinet minister at an age of thirty-five making him the youngest cabinet member of the Second Republic. In the Fourth Republic, he became a founding member of the
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Esseku was secretary to the national disciplinary committee of the NPP from 1995 to 1998. He was a member of the national council of the NPP from 1995. He was vice chairman of the
Central Regional branch of the party from 1996 to 2001, the party's representative to the Inter-Party Committee (IPAC)
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scholarship. While at university, he was a pioneering student resident of Third Hall (renamed
Commonwealth) and became the first student to be elected as president of the Commonwealth Hall Junior Common Room (JCR) at the end of his first year. In his final year, he was president of the Students'
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In 1968, he was elected by the Awutus, Effutus, Gomoas and Agonas to represent them in the constituent assembly as the representative of the
Winneba Administrative District for the drafting of the constitution of the second republic.
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in 1969 and became one of its leading members. In the parliamentary elections that took place on 29 August that year, Harona Esseku was elected as a member of parliament for Awutu-Effutu-Senya
Constituency.
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Esseku was secretary to the Senya Beraku
Development Association from 1965 to 1968, and Secretary to the Council of Youth Associations covering the three traditional areas of Winneba, Awutu and Senya.
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after Kumasi and in 1958 he worked as a higher executive officer in the office of the Government Statistician.
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Harona Esseku was born on August 14, 1934, in Krobonshie,
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873:"Harona Esseku - Still Going Strong"
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891:"Harona Esseku New NPP Chairman"
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