| Emmanuel Kobla Bensah | |
| Office1: | Minister for Communications and Works |
| Term Start1: | 1961 |
| Term End1: | 1963 |
| President1: | Dr. Kwame Nkrumah |
| Office2: | Minister for Works and Housing |
| Term Start2: | 1957 |
| Term End2: | 1961 |
| President2: | Dr. Kwame Nkrumah |
| Predecessor2: | Kojo Botsio |
| Successor2: | Boahene Yeboah-Afari |
| Office3: | Member of Parliament for Swedru[1] |
| Term Start3: | 1951 |
| Term End3: | 1966 |
| President3: | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Birth Date: | 26 June 1912 |
| Birth Name: | Emmanuel Kobla Bensah |
| Birth Place: | Woe, Volta Region |
| Citizenship: | Ghanaian |
Emmanuel Kobla Bensah was a Ghanaian nurse pharmacist and politician during the first republic. He served as a nurse pharmacist in various hospitals in the Gold Coast prior to politics. As a politician he served on various ministerial portfolios in the Nkrumah government until the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah.
Bensah was born on 26 March 1912 at Woe, a town in the Volta Region. He had his early education at Bremen Mission Schools at Anloga and Keta where he received his standard 7 certificate in 1928. In 1930 he sat for the Common Gold Coast Entrance Examination for training as a nurse pharmacist and passed.[2] [3]
Upon passing his examination he was employed at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. There, he began training as a nurse in 1931 and qualified as one in 1934. He later trained as a nurse pharmacist qualifying in 1937. During the period he worked as a civil servant, he served in hospitals in several parts of the Ghana (then Gold Coast) including Sefwi-Wiawso, Kumasi, Accra and Dunkwa-on-Offin. Prior to his resignation from civil service to venture private business in 1948, he was stationed at Agona Swedru.[2]
In 1951, Bensah was elected into the legislative assembly as a member for the Agona Swedru Constituency.[4] He was appointed Ministerial Secretary to the Ministry of Communications and Trade in 1953. In 1956, he was re-elected as a member of the legislative assembly and that same year he was posted to the Ministry of Finance still as a Ministerial Secretary until May, 1957.[5] In June, 1957 he was promoted to minister status, he was appointed Minister of Works, a portfolio that became Minister of Works and Housing later that year.[6] [7] In 1961 he was appointed Minister for Construction and Communications[8] this post later evolved into Minister of Communications and Works.[9] [2] [3]
Bensah was married to Madam Dina Ayeh from 1937 to 1942. He later married Madam Annie Hughes.[2]