Horace Walter Kofi-Sackey was a
Ghanaian lawyer and a politician who served as member of parliament in the Second Republic representing Bantama Constituency in the
Ashanti Region of Ghana. He also held office as Ministerial Secretary (deputy minister) for Works in the
Busia government.
Early life and education
Kofi-Sackey was born on 2 September 1932. He was educated at the
Accra Academy
Accra Academy is a Non-denominational Christianity, non-denominational Day School, day and Boarding School, boarding Single-sex education, boys' school. It is located at Bubuashie near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region. The school was establishe ...
from 1947 to 1950. He proceeded to
Achimota College from 1950 to 1952 for his sixth form education. He continued at the
London School of Economics, a constituent college of the
University of London from 1954 to 1957.
Career and politics
Kofi-Sackey was called to the bar at
Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...
on 24 June 1958 and the
Ghana bar on 24 July 1958.
He entered private legal practice that same year. He practised in
Kumasi. He was a member of the Ashanti Bar Association (the Ashanti Regional branch of the
Ghana Bar Association
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is a professional association of lawyers in Ghana, including what used to be called solicitors and barristers but are now called legal practitioners, as well as magistrates.
By convention all lawyers admitted to pr ...
) and also became president of the association.
In 1969, he was elected as a member of parliament for
Bantama
Bantama is suburb of Kumasi. Kumasi is the regional capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Bantama is both a residential and commercial area in the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. It is in the centre of the regional capital.
History
Notable p ...
a constituency in the
Ashanti Region of Ghana on the ticket of the
Progress Party. He contested with Bonsu Osei-Tutu of the
National Alliance of Liberals
The National Alliance of Liberals (NAL) was a political party in Ghana during the Second Republic (1969–1972). The party was formed after the ban on party politics was lifted in May 1969 and was dissolved along with all other political pa ...
and Samuel Kwabena Danso of the
United Nationalist Party. That same year he was appointed deputy minister for Works. He served in that position until 1972
when the
Busia government was overthrown.
He and other top officials of the then erstwhile
Progress Party were arrested without trial and detained for fifteen months. A ban was formally placed on all political parties and political activities on 16 January 1972, three days after the coup d'état. A committee was set up to investigate the assets of top officials of the party of which he was included on 9 February 1972. The adverse findings levelled against him and other party members by the committee were revoked by a review tribunal in 1979. He and some members of the party namely;
Haruna Esseku,
Bukari Adama
Bukari Kpegla Adama (15 November 1925 – 2 November 2003) was a Ghanaian politician and a minister of state in the Second Republic.
Early life and education
He was born at Busa, in the Wa district, on 15 November 1925. He attend ...
and Alhaji Bukari consequently filed petitions against the adverse findings of the committee which was in turn dismissed by the tribunal.
Personal life
Kofi-Sackey married Valerie Lindoe in 1957. She was head of the Castle Information Bureau during the
Provisional National Defence Council era. Valerie Sackey was a teacher at
Opoku Ware School
Opoku Ware School, often referred to as OWASS, is a public Catholic senior high school for boys, located in Santasi, a suburb of Kumasi, which is the capital of the Ashanti region of Ghana.
Notable alumni
* Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, form ...
; and also an officer with the Department of Game and Wildlife.
They had three children; Michael, Joseph and Anne.
See also
*
*
Busia government
References
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1932 births
Date of death missing
Place of death missing
Akan people
20th-century Ghanaian lawyers
Ghanaian MPs 1969–1972
Alumni of the Accra Academy
Alumni of Achimota School
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Alumni of the University of London
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Alumni of the Inns of Court School of Law
Progress Party (Ghana) politicians
20th-century Ghanaian politicians
People from Ashanti Region