Joseph Henry Allassani
Resident Minister of Ghana to Guinea
In office
September 1959 – 1 July 1960
PresidentKwame Nkrumah
Preceded byEbenezer Ako-Adjei
Succeeded byStephen Allen Dzirasa
Minister for Health[1]
In office
June 1956 – July 1959
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
Succeeded byImoru Egala
Minister for Education
In office
21 June 1954 – June 1956
PresidentKwame Nkrumah
Succeeded byJohn Bogolo Erzuah
Member of Parliament
for Saboba
In office
1965 – February 1966
Succeeded byErnest Seth Yaney
Member of Parliament
for Dagomba East[2]
In office
1951–1965
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Joseph Henry Allassani

1906
Gumo, British Togoland
NationalityGhanaian

Joseph Henry Allassani was a Ghanaian teacher and politician. He was a member of parliament and a minister of state during the first republic. He was the first health minister in the first republic of Ghana.[3]

Early life and education

Allassani was born around 1906 at Gumo a suburb of the Kumbungu District about 9 km from Tamale in the Northern Region, Ghana then a territory of Togoland under the trusteeship of the United Kingdom. He had his elementary education at catholic schools in Tamale, Elmina, Sunyani, and finally at St. Peter's school in Kumasi. He entered the Government Teacher Training College in 1924 and graduated with his Certificate 'A' in 1926.[4]

Career and politics

Allassani begun teaching in 1927 at St. Peter's Roman Catholic School, Kumasi. He taught there for about twenty-two years. In 1949 he resigned to take up an appointment as secretary to the Dagomba Native Administration. That same year, he was elected into the Northern Territories Council and in 1951 he was elected to the legislative assembly as a representative of Dagomba East on the ticket of the Convention People's Party.[5][6][7] He officially took office on 8 February 1951. On 1 April 1951, he was appointed ministerial secretary (deputy minister) to the ministry of development and on 20 June 1954 he was appointed Minister for Education, officially taking office on 21 June that year.[8][9] In 1955 and 1956 he argued for the integration of Northern Togoland with the Gold Coast before the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations.[10] He was appointed minister for health in June 1956[11][12][13][14] until September 1959 when he was appointed Ghana's Resident Minister in Guinea.[15] He held that office until 30 June 1960 when he was appointed chairman of Rural Housing officially taking office on republic day; 1 July 1960. He served in this capacity until 1 January when he was appointed chairman of the State Paints Corporation. He held this office until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown.[4] During his tenure of office as a government official, he served on various boards and committees, some which include; the Scholarship Selection Board, the Central Tender Board, the Erzuah Committee on Civil Service Salaries and the Committee on Transport in the Northern Territories.[16] During the era of the National Liberation Council government he was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment with hard labour by two asset commissions on the conviction of perjury and contempt of Justice Apaloo's Commission.[17][18]

Personal life

Allassani was married to Susana Andani with whom he had twelve children.[4] He enjoyed listening to music.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary debates; official Report, Part 2". Google books. Ghana Publications Corporation: i. 1965.
  2. ↑ "The Diplomatic Press Directory of the Republic of Ghana, Volume 2". Google books. Diplomatic Press and Publishing Company: 26. 1960.
  3. ↑ "Parliamentary Debates; National Assembly Official Report". Google books. Accra, Government printing department. 1957.
  4. 1 2 3 Report of the Manyo-Plange (Assets) Commission, appointed under the Commissions of Enquiry Act, 1964 (Act 250) and N. L. C. (Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets) Decree, 1966 (N. L. C. D. 72) to enquire into the assets of specified persons (Report). Ghana Publishing Corporation. 1969. p. xv.
  5. ↑ "Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Administration of Togoland under United Kingdom Trusteeship". Google books. H.M. Stationery Office: 19. 1955.
  6. ↑ A History of Higher Education in Northern Ghana, 1907–1976. Ghana Universities Press. 1990. p. 194. ISBN 9789964302153.
  7. ↑ "United Nations Bulletin, Volume 16". Google books. United Nations Department of Public Information: 222. 1954.
  8. ↑ "Gold Coast Gazette, Part 1". Google books. Government Print Office: 453. 1956.
  9. ↑ Rathbone, Richard (1992). Ghana, Part 2. p. xv. ISBN 9780112905264.
  10. ↑ Rubin, J. A. (1962). Pictorial history of the United Nations. p. 181.
  11. ↑ Steinburg, S. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1960. p. 295. ISBN 9780230270893.
  12. ↑ "The British Commonwealth Year Book". Google books. MacGibbon and Kee: 227. 1953.
  13. ↑ "GHANA'S CABINET". Crisis. USA: The Crisis Publishing Company. April 1957. p. 204. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  14. ↑ Bawumia, Mumuni (1972). A life the Political History of Ghana:Memoirs of Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. p. 116. ISBN 9789964303358.
  15. ↑ Thompson, W. S. (1969). Ghana's Foreign Policy, 1957-1966: Diplomacy Ideology, and the New State. p. 75. ISBN 9781400876303.
  16. 1 2 "Ghana Year Book". Google books. Graphic Corporation: 179. 1958.
  17. ↑ "Africa Report, Volume 12". Google books. African-American Institute: 45. 1967.
  18. ↑ Rajasooria, J. P. (1972). Ghana & Nkrumah. p. 124. ISBN 9780871961914.
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