Lucy Anin (born 13 June 1939) is a
Ghanaian politician. She was a member of parliament representing the
Brong Ahafo Region from 1960 to 1965 and the member of parliament for the Bechem constituency from 1965 to 1966.
Life and politics
Anin was among the first women to enter the
Parliament of Ghana in 1960 under the representation of the people (women members) act. She was among the 10 women who were elected unopposed on 27 June 1960 on the ticket of the
Convention People's Party.
[Joshua Bediako Koomso]
"Anti-Nkrumah agents planting ‘Trojan horses’ in CPP — Lucy Anin"
Graphic Online, 12 June 2019.
She subsequently became the youngest member of parliament, entering parliament at the age of 21. In 1965, she became the member of parliament representing the Bechem constituency. In 1966 when the
Nkrumah government
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial r ...
was overthrown she was imprisoned for 8 months while pregnant.
Today, she is a member of the Convention People's Party council of elders and the only woman among the ten women in Ghana's first parliament alive.
She is the cousin of jurist and former Supreme Court judge;
Patrick Dankwa Anin
Patrick Dankwa Anin (27 July 1928 – 24 October 1999) was a foreign minister of Ghana in the Second Republic.
He died in 1999.
He was the first foreign minister to be appointed in the Progress Party government by Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the Pri ...
, and economist and former chief executive officer of the
Ghana Commercial Bank
GCB Bank Limited formally known as ''Ghana Commercial Bank'' is the largest bank in Ghana in terms of total operating assets and share of industry deposits, with 14.2% of total industry deposits. In August 2017, the Bank of Ghana, the nation's cen ...
;
T. E. Anin.
See also
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References
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1939 births
Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965
Ghanaian MPs 1965–1966
Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians
20th-century Ghanaian women politicians
Living people