Joseph Yieleh Chireh’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

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Diplomat 
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Law 
Politics 

Gender male
Birth 8 July 1954
Age: 66 years

Joseph Yieleh Chireh (born 8 July 1954) is a Ghanaian pharmacist, barrister, diplomat and politician. He is the Member for Parliament for Wa West.

Education

Chireh was born in Lassia Tuolu in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He studied at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1975 and obtained the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 1979. He proceeded to the Ghana School of Law in 2001 and qualified as a barrister in 2006.

Politics and diplomatic service

Chireh joined the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992 on the resumption of party politics in Ghana. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings as Upper West Regional Minister in his government in 1993. He was subsequently made the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Algeria with concurrent accreditation to Tunisia, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Mauritania between 1997 and 2001. He contested the newly created Wa West constituency seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in December 2004, which he won leading to his taking his seat in the Fourth parliament of the Fourth Republic. He retained his seat in the 2008 and 2012 parliamentary elections.

In February 2009, he was appointed Minister for Local Government and Rural Development by the new President of Ghana, John Atta Mills.

On 4 January 2011, he was appointed Minister of Health by the President, John Evans Atta Mills in a cabinet reshuffle.

Personal

Chireh is a Christian and is married with 4 children.

  • Profile on Parliament of Ghana website
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
? 		Ambassador to Algeria
1997–2001		 Succeeded by
Kwabena Sekyi
Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by Wa West
2005–present		 Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Yelibora Antumini 		Minister for the Upper West Region
1993–1997		 Succeeded by
Amidu Sulemana
Preceded by
Kwadjo Adjei-Darko 		Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
2009–2011		 Succeeded by
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo
Preceded by
Benjamin Kunbuor 		Minister for Health
2011–2012		 Succeeded by
Alban Bagbin
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