Former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Ernest Akubour Debrah Passes On

A former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister during President Kufour’s administration, Mr. Ernest Akubour Debrah is dead. He died in the early hours of yesterday in Accra.

According to the regional Secretary of NPP,Alfred Anyeh, who confirmed the sad news to Suncity Radio, Mr. Debrah had been appointed a member of the regional Campaign Team of the party but could not live to begin his new assignment.

Mr. Debrah was the first Regional Minister for the Brong Ahafo Region during the Kufour administration. He was later sent to the Northern Region where he was able to calm tension then brewing in the region between the Andaanis and Abudu’s.

He was later appointed the minister for Food and Agriculture during the second term of President Kufour’s administration, after winning the parliamentary seat for Tano North.

Mr. Akubour Debrah had then resigned from the then Social Security Bank to join the campaign team of the NPP under the leadership of then Mr. JA Kufour.

After the NPP government in 2008 he resigned from active politics to concentrate on his farming activities. The Regional Secretary of the NPP, Mr. Ofori Annye described the late Debrah as a man of great intelligence, hardworking and a counsellor. His demise he said, is a big blow to the party and the nation as a whole.