Ebo Tawiah is a Ghanaian unionist and politician. He was a member of the

Provisional National Defence Council The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, in a co ...

(PNDC) military government led by

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which ruled Ghana after the overthrow of the

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Unionist

Prior to his involvement in politics, Tawiah was a Trade Unionist. In 2019, Tawiah was honoured post-humously along with Jerry Rawlings and others with an award by the Ghana Mineworkers Union's during their 75th Anniversary celebrations.

Politics

Tawiah was a member of the Socialist Forum of Ghana. He was also an activist of the

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UG ...

led by Kwame Nkrumah and campaigned for the banned party to be reinstated. Tawiah was appointed to the PNDC in August 1982 along with Aanaa Enin This was following the resignations of Reverend Father Damuah and Amartey Quaye. During the PNDC era, Paul Collins Appiah Ofori who later became MP for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa claimed that he had been wrongfully detained under the military regime and Tawiah was instrumental along with Rawlings in his release. Following the return to constitutional rule, Tawiah joined the National Convention Party (NCP) which was one of the parties of the Nkrumah tradition. He was its chairman for a period. The NCP went into an alliance with the NDC led by Jerry Rawlings for the

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. In 2011, he publicly backed the bid by the Ghanaian president

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for nomination by the National Democratic Congress to stand on its ticket in the

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for president.

Death

Tawiah died in March 2018. He was buried at the Osu Cemetery in Accra.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tawiah, Ebo 2018 deaths National Convention Party (Ghana) politicians 1946 births