Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
Zita Okaikoi | |
Office: | Ambassador of Ghana to the Czech Republic |
Term Start: | 2013 |
Term End: | 2017 |
Successor: | Virginia Hesse |
Office2: | Minister for Tourism |
Term Start2: | 2010 |
Term End2: | 2011 |
President2: | John Atta Mills |
Predecessor2: | Juliana Azumah-Mensah |
Successor2: | Akua Dansua |
Office3: | Minister for Information |
Term Start3: | 2009 |
Term End3: | 2010 |
President3: | John Atta Mills |
Predecessor3: | Nana Akomea |
Successor3: | John Tia |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Alma Mater: | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Ghana School of Law |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Zita Sabah Okaikoi is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Tourism of Ghana and later Ghana's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.[1]
Okaikoi is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the Ghana School of Law.[2]
Okaikoi was the first Minister for Information in the National Democratic Congress government of President John Atta Mills. She held that portfolio through the first year of the Mills government. Okaikoi was appointed Minister for Tourism by President Mills in a cabinet reshuffle in January 2010.[3] She attracted controversy in 2010 when she left for the United States during her pregnancy ostensibly to have a baby.[4]
She is the daughter of a Lebanese-Ghanaian father and a Ghanaian mother.
Zita dumped her ex-husband after a failed marriage to Mr. Andrew Okaikoi.[5] She remarried in a private wedding ceremony.[6]