Former Interior Minister Owen Woyongo Reported Dead

Mr Mark Owen Woyongo, a former Minister of Defence, Interior, and Member of Parliament(MP) for Navrongo Central Constituency has died at age 78.

Family sources say the former MP, who had been unwell, died in Accra in the late hours of Wednesday, January 17, 2023.

The former Interior Minister recently buried his son, Kenneth Kwotua, who died at age 49.

His wife, Cecilia Wuni Woyongo, survives Mark Woyongo.

The former Member of Parliament retired from politics in 2016 after he lost the 2016 election.

Mark Woyongo was a former MP of Navrongo, former Interior Minister, owner, and Chief Executive Officer of Tamale-based Diamond FM.

 

 

 

 

About Mark Owen Woyongo 

Mark Owen Woyongo was born on 9 June 1946 in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana.

He attended Notre Dame Secondary School in Navrongo in 1966.

He completed a Diploma in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in 1971. He has undertaken many professional courses in Ghana and abroad

Mark Owen Woyongo was the Public Relations Officer for the Upper East Regional Administration from 1978 and 1985.

He was appointed the Regional Information Officer, Upper East Region in 1985. In 1994, he was appointed the Minister Counselor for Information at the Ghana High Commission in London, United Kingdom.

Woyongo first stood for election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress in the 2008 Ghanaian parliamentary election, winning 41.7% of the votes and losing to Joseph Kofi Adda of the New Patriotic Party by 1,130 votes (3.5%).

He was however appointed the Upper East Regional Minister by President Mills in his government in 2009.

He was retained in this position by President Mahama following the death of Mills.

He survived a fatal accident when returning from the NDC congress held in the Upper East region.

He won the Navrongo Central constituency parliamentary elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2012.

In 2013, he was appointed Defence Minister and subsequently to the Ministry of the Interior during his tenure as Upper East Regional Minister.

 

 

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