Alex Tettey-Enyo

He started his first teaching job at the Yilo State School at Somanya in 1958. His next job was at the Ghanata Secondary School, Dodowa. After his university education, during which he was President of the national socialist students' organisation (Ghanaso), he joined a group of students from the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute who went to the GDR's central party school in Berlin for extended study. Whilst there, he was approached after the fall of Kwame Nkrumah to return to Ghana by supporters of the deposed President to return to work on his behalf, but declined. The evidence for his time in Berlin is in the Bundesarchiv, Berlin Lichterfelde, SAPMO-BArch, DY 30, IV A 2/ 9.09/ 125. He returned to his former school in 1966, eventually becoming Assistant Headmaster from 1971 to 1974. In 1982,he was appointed head of Ada Secondary School, a position he held until 1990. He was made the Director of Education for the Dangme East District in the Ghana Education Service (GES) in 1990. In 1991, he became Director for Secondary Education at the headquarters of the GES in 1991. Four years later, he was the Director for Manpower and Training at GES headquarters. In 1996, he became the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service and then the Acting Director General from 2001.[1]

Tettey-Enyo acted as District Secretary for the Dangme East District Assembly in 1990. He first stood for parliament in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in December 2004 on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress, entering parliament in January 2005.[3] In 2009, President John Atta Mills appointed Tettey-Enyo as Minister for Education in his government.[4] Tettey-Enyo's term as minister ended in 2011 following the cabinet reshuffle by President Mills.[5]