2012 Vice Presidential Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP) and current Parliamentary Aspirant for Klottey Korle constituency on the same party's ticket, Mrs Eva Lokko, has passed on to eternal glory.
She reportedly passed away Thursday afternoon in the United States of America, where she had been flown for medical treatment.
An official of the party, Richmond Keelson confirmed her demise but declined to give further details.
Biography
Eva Naa Merely Lokko attended Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast. She was an engineer by profession and holds a master's degree in Intelligent Management Systems, System Analysis and Design.
Lokko was the first Satellite Communications Engineer and the first woman engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in 1972. She was part of the engineering team that installed and maintained Ghana's first colour television infrastructure in 1985.
She has worked in over forty countries across the world in various capacities and served as Regional Programme Coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme initiative for Internet development in Africa. She worked with the United Nations for thirteen years and also served as chairperson of the UN Federation of International Civil Servants Association and the United Nations Staff Council and as a member of the UNDP News Advisory Board.
She was once the Chief Executive Officer of Totally Youth, a Non Governmental Organization based in Accra. In 2002, she was appointed Director-General of the GBC, becoming the first and only woman to hold that position since the corporation was established in 1953.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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You fought a good fight..sleep on and take a rest.
MAY SHE REST IN PERFECT PEACE.
well what can I say? Questioning death? The maker had his own ways of our living. The life do not belong to us, when it comes to its manipulations, there is nothing within our powers. May the good God grant her everlasting peace.Mum RIP
Ghana has lost a giant brain. She was the finest of the finest. May your soul rest in perfect peace.
RIP
Madam rest in perfect peace , and proud of your achievements
Hmm sad. Paa Kwesi Nduom u see the curse us bringing to ur party by poking ur long nose into Mill's death? Now tell us if u also killed Eva Lokko?
She was such a sweet personality. May her soul rest in perfect PEACE.
OH Mum Eva,So Sad May Your Soul Rest In Perfect Peace
Life has never been fair to us but we have faith in GOD that one day we shall meet again. Fare thee well....RIP You are a great warrior