Honorific-Prefix: | Hon |
Lee Ocran | |
Constituency Mp: | Jomoro |
Parliament: | Ghana |
Majority: | 1,665 |
Term Start: | January 2005 |
Term End: | January 2009 |
Predecessor: | Joseph Emmanuel Ackah |
Successor: | Samia Nkrumah |
Office2: | Ghanaian High Commissioner to Pretoria |
Term End2: | February 2012 |
Predecessor2: | Jimmy Ben Heymann |
Successor2: | Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee |
Office3: | Minister for Education |
Term Start3: | February 2012 |
Term End3: | February 2013 |
President3: | John Atta Mills |
Predecessor3: | Betty Mould-Iddrisu |
Successor3: | Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang |
Birth Date: | c. 1945 |
Birth Place: | Nawule, Jomoro District, Ghana |
Death Place: | Accra, Ghana |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Lee Tandoh Ocran[1] (born about 1945; died 21 February 2019) was a Ghanaian politician who served as Minister for Education of Ghana from 2012 to 2013. Ocran was appointed Minister by President John Atta Mills in February 2012 in a cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Betty Mould-Iddrisu from the government and the sacking of Martin Amidu.[2] [3] [4]
In 2000 he was Deputy Minister of Environment Science and Technology.[5] He was the former Minister for Education from 2012 to 2013. He was sworn in as a board chairman of VRA in February 2014.[6] He was also the former High Commissioner of Ghana to South Africa.[7]
Since January 2005 as candidate from the National Democratic Congress he was Member of Parliament for the Jomoro constituency[8] until he lost his seat to the daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, Samia Nkrumah of the Convention People's Party in the December 2008 parliamentary election.[9] In February 2014 Ocran was sworn in as board chairman of Volta River Authority.[10] On he described the Bui Dam as a White Elephant (extravagant but burdensome gift).[11]
He was a Christian and worshiped as a Catholic. He was married with three children.[12]
He died at the age of 74 after battling with illnesses.[13]