Joseph Yieleh Chireh

Honourable Joseph Yieleh Chireh MP
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Incumbent
Assumed office Jan 2005
Preceded by	(New Constituency)
Majority	16,368 (57.71%)
Member of Parliament of Ghana for Wa West
Minister for Health
In office Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
President	John Atta Mills
Preceded by	Benjamin Kunbuor
Succeeded by	Alban Bagbin
Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
In office Feb 2009 – Jan 2011
President	John Atta Mills
Preceded by	Kwadjo Adjei-Darko
Succeeded by	Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo
Minister for the Upper West Region
In office Feb 1993 – Jan 1997
President	Jerry Rawlings
Preceded by	Yelibora Antumini
Succeeded by	Amidu Sulemana
Ambassador to Algeria
In office 1997–2001
President	Jerry Rawlings
Personal details
Born	( 1954 -07-08) July 8, 1954 Lassia Tuolu, Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian
Political party	National Democratic Congress
Children	4
Alma mater	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Profession	Pharmacist, Barrister
Committees	Health Select Committee (Chairman), Subsidiary Legislation Committee (Deputy Ranking Member), Appointments Committee
Religion	Roman Catholic

Joseph Yieleh Chireh (born 8 July 1954) is a Ghanaian pharmacist, barrister, diplomat and politician. He is the Member for Parliament for Wa West.

Education

Chireh was born in Lassia Tuolu in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He studied at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1975 and obtained the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 1979. He proceeded to the Ghana School of Law in 2001 and qualified as a barrister in 2006.

Politics and diplomatic service

Chireh joined the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992 on the resumption of party politics in Ghana. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings as Upper West Regional Minister in his government in 1993. He was subsequently made the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Algeria with concurrent accreditation to Tunisia, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Mauritania between 1997 and 2001. He contested the newly created Wa West constituency seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in December 2004, which he won leading to his taking his seat in the Fourth parliament of the Fourth Republic. He retained his seat in the 2008 and 2012 parliamentary elections.

In February 2009, he was appointed Minister for Local Government and Rural Development by the new President of Ghana, John Atta Mills.

On 4 January 2011, he was appointed Minister of Health by the President, John Evans Atta Mills in a cabinet reshuffle.

Personal

Chireh is a Christian and is married with 4 children.

See also

• Rawlings government
• List of Mills government ministers
• Wa West constituency

External links and sources

• Profile on Parliament of Ghana website

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by ?	Ambassador to Algeria 1997–2001	Succeeded by Kwabena Sekyi
Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by	Wa West 2005–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Yelibora Antumini	Minister for the Upper West Region 1993–1997	Succeeded by Amidu Sulemana
Preceded by Kwadjo Adjei-Darko	Minister for Local Government and Rural Development 2009–2011	Succeeded by Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo
Preceded by Benjamin Kunbuor	Minister for Health 2011–2012	Succeeded by Alban Bagbin