Former Information Minister John Tia Reported Dead

John Akologu Tia, a former Ghanaian minister of information and ambassador to Cuba, has passed away.

Abdallah Salifu, the NDC’s Upper East Regional Communications Officer, confirmed the news and stated that he passed away following a brief illness.

He revealed that Mr Tia died at the Upper East Regional Hospital on Sunday, March 24.

John Akologu Tia was a politician and former Minister for Information. He was the Member of Parliament for Talensi from January 1993 until 2012.

Mr Tia got involved in local politics in 1982 when he became the Press Secretary of the Upper East Regional Secretariat of Peoples Defence Committees/Workers Defence Committees set up by the Provisional National Defence Council military government.

He was elected an MP in the 1992 parliamentary election as a National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate. He has been the MP for the Talensi constituency since the first parliament in the Fourth Republic in January 1993 until he lost to Robert Nachinab Doameng in the 2012 General election.

He was also a Member of the ECOWAS Parliament. In 2009, he was appointed by President Mills as Minister for Information.

In 2012, he lost his bid to retain the Talensi seat to Robert N. Doameng Mosore, an independent candidate.

In 2016 he announced his decision to no longer contest in the parliamentary elections.

Survived by four children, Tia had announced his intention to pursue full-time farming after his ambassadorial role in Cuba, aiming to contribute to the country’s food security efforts.

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