George Sipa-Adjah Yankey is a Ghanaian

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and

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. He is the former CEO of Ghana Gas and served as

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for Health of

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during the Atta Mills government.

Education

Yankey attended Nsein Senior High School for his Ordinary level Certificate. He studied at the Ghana School of Law. He obtained his PhD in 1987 from the

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in the United Kingdom.

Career

Yankey worked in the Ministry of Finance of Ghana and was the head of its Legal department between 1989 and 1995. He became Director of the Legal, Private Sector and Financial Institutions Department at the same ministry from 1996.

Politics

Yankey is a member of the National Democratic Congress. After the 2008 presidential election,

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John Atta Mills appointed him Minister for Health in his government in February 2009. Following investigations conducted by the Serious Fraud Office of the

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, Mabey and Johnson Limited, a supplier of steel bridging based at Twyford, Berkshire was prosecuted in 2009. This followed the company disclosing that it had "sought to influence decision-makers in public contracts in

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and Ghana" between 1993 and 2001. Five Ghanaian officials, including Yankey, who was alleged to have received £15,000, were cited by the company. Yankey denied these allegations in a statement issued after Mabey and Johnson had been fined £6.6 million by the Southwark Crown Court. Despite his denials however, Yankey resigned as Minister for Health in order to concentrate on clearing his name. His resignation was accepted by President Mills, who in addition, invited the

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to investigate the case.

Ghana National Gas Company

After the investigation Dr. Yankey was cleared of all charges. He was appointed by

John Atta Mills as CEO of the

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. In his role he was responsible for leading the company and building the infrastructure for sustainable gas distribution across Ghana. He was succeeded by

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in February 2017.

Education

Career

Politics

Ghana National Gas Company

References

See also