[Pictures] Late Vice President Amissah-Arthur was born on this day 70 years ago

Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur was born on April 29, 1951, and passed away on June 29, 2018.

He was a Ghanaian economist, academic, and politician who was the sixth Vice-President of Ghana, in office from 6 August 2012 until 7 January 2017, under President John Dramani Mahama.

He was sworn in as Vice-President on 6 August 2012, following vetting by the Parliament of Ghana.

He was nominated by President John Dramani Mahama to be the Vice-President a week after Mahama himself was sworn in after the demise of former President, John Atta Mills on 24 July 2012.

Prior to becoming the second gentleman of the land, the Late Vice President Amissah-Arthur was Governor of the Bank of Ghana from 2009 to 2012.

He proceeded to the University of Ghana at Legon, where he obtained the B.Sc. in 1974 and M.Sc. in 1976, both in Economics.

Amissah-Arthur was a research assistant at the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research between 1974 and 1975.

He later joined the Economics Department as a teaching assistant from 1977 to 1978, going on to become an assistant lecturer in 1979.

The Late Vice President Amissah-Arthur lectured at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana between 1980 and 1988. He has also been a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Anambra State College of Education, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria (August 1981 – July 1983).

He went into politics until 1997.

Amissah-Arthur was married to Matilda Amissah-Arthur with two children.

He was a Christian and was known to worship at the Calvary Methodist Church at Adabraka in Accra.

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE