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• Elizabeth Akua Ohene received a government appointment
• She is now president of the SSNIT board of directors
• She succeeds Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor
Mrs. Elizabeth Akua Ohene, former journalist and Minister of State under the administration of John Agyekum Kufuor, has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).
According to a report by Asaase Radio seen by GhanaWeb, Ms. Ohene succeeds Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor, who was Chairman of the Board of Directors of SSNIT between 2017 and January 2021.
Elizabeth Ohene was previously the speechwriter for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and prior to the December 2020 elections she was also part of President Akufo-Addo’s campaign team.
Elizabeth Ohene, as part of her work at SSNIT, is expected to partner with the leadership of SSNIT to pursue the vision of the Trust to be the model for the administration of social protection schemes in Africa and beyond, “this which would ultimately lead to the provision of income security to workers in Ghana through excellent business practices.
The report further indicates that, how to improve SSNIT’s core function of registering employers and workers, collecting dues, managing member records, investing scheme funds, and processing and paying benefits to eligible members and employees? designated dependents, would also certainly engage the efforts of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the management team of SSNIT.
Elizabeth Ohene joins a list of eminent personalities who have received nominations under the chairmanship of Akufo-Addo.
About SSNIT
SSNIT was created in 1972 as part of NRCD 127 to administer the national social security scheme. Prior to 1972, the Scheme was administered jointly by the then Pensions Department and the State Insurance Company. The Trust administered the social security scheme as a provident scheme until 1991, when it was converted to a social insurance pension scheme, then governed by PNDC Law 247.
The Ghanaian scheme was reformed through an Act of Parliament, Law 766 of 2008 and was implemented in January 2010 to replace all pension schemes in Ghana, including cap 30. In 2014, Law 883 on National pensions (amendment) was adopted to modify parts of Act 766.
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is a statutory public trust charged under the National Pensions Act 2008 766 with the administration of Ghana’s basic national social security scheme.
Its mandate is to cover the first level of the three-level pension scheme. The Trust is currently Ghana’s largest non-bank financial institution.
The main responsibility of the Trust is to replace part of the lost income of workers in Ghana due to old age, disability or death of a member when dependents receive a lump sum payment.
He is also responsible for the payment of emigration benefits to a non-Ghanaian member who leaves Ghana permanently.
The pension scheme as administered by SSNIT has over 1.6 million active members as of January 2021, with more than 226,000 retirees who regularly receive their monthly pensions from SSNIT.
Profile of Elizabeth Ohene
Miss Elizabeth Akua Ohene was born January 24, 1945 and attended Mawuli School in Ho between 1958 and 1964. She was admitted to the University of Ghana in 1964 and obtained a BA (Hon) English in 1967.
The former minister of state also attended Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, where she obtained a certificate in mass communication. The US State Department sponsored her to take a course involving travel across the United States and also gained newspaper work experience in three states in 1971.
She was Press Fellow from January to June 1983 at Wolfswon College, Cambridge University in the UK. Miss Elizabeth Ohene’s professional experience between 1967 and 1982 in Graphic Corporation saw her as a journalist, editor, columnist, editor and acting editor of the Daily Graphic and Mirror. She also had the opportunity to sit on the Board of Directors of the Company.
In 1986, she founded the Talking Drum publications on her own and until 1986 she was the editor / editor of Publications, a weekly news magazine on West African affairs. She also worked for BBC World Service, London, UK.
Ms Ohene worked with the BBC as a radio program producer, then successively became a presenter, senior producer on world service and UK home radio, researcher and columnist on Focus on African magazine and deputy editor in African service. daily English programs. , and in charge of the operating budget.
Miss Elizabeth Ohene also edited the award-winning Focus on Africa program. She also reported regularly for the BBC in various parts of Africa and was the resident correspondent in South Africa from 1993 to 1994 during the transition from apartheid to the first democratic elections.
The former minister has conducted numerous training programs for BBC journalists in South Africa, Nigeria, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. She also led a network of over 150 freelancers located in all parts of Africa for the BBC Africa Service and also oversaw their editorial work and kept their equipment and training needs up to date.
Miss Ohene’s professional activities include being a member of the International Women Media Foundation which actively promotes the skills and leadership of women in media. The foundation has established a Media Center for African Women in Dakar, Senegal, where courses are held for African women in media according to their needs.
To date, the minister has served on the board of directors of the International Commission of Investigative Journalists which coordinates major story investigations around the world. Since 1997, she has been a member of the CNN Africa Journalist of the Year competition.
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