Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Office1: | Minister for Defence |
Term Start1: | February 1999 |
Term End1: | January 2001 |
President1: | Jerry John Rawlings |
Birthname: | Enoch Kwame Tweneboah Donkoh |
Office2: | Deputy Minister for Defence |
Office: | Ambassador of Ghana to Ivory Coast |
Term Start: | September 2009 |
Term End: | January 2013 |
President: | John Evans Atta Mills |
Predecessor: | Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu |
Successor: | Kwame Addo-Kufuor |
Term Start2: | 1994 |
Term End2: | February 1999 |
President2: | Jerry John Rawlings |
Birth Date: | 1939 |
Death Date: | (aged 77) |
Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
Allegiance: | Ghana |
Branch: | Ghanaian army |
Enoch Kwame Tweneboah Donkoh (1939–2016) was a Ghanaian soldier, politician and diplomat. He served as the Minister of Defence from 1999 to 2001 under the Rawlings government.[1] [2]
He was a member of the National Democratic Congress.[3] He served as Deputy Minister of Defence from 1994 to 1999. In February 1999, Donkoh was appointed by President Jerry John Rawlings to replace Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu as Minister of Defence. He served in role from February 1999 to January 2001.
In September 2009, Donkoh was appointed by president John Evans Atta Mills to serve as Ghana's ambassador to Ivory Coast.
Donkoh died on 13 July 2016 at the age of 77 years.[4]