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Eva Lokko
Madam Eva Naa Merley Lokko

Eva Lokko is dead

 

Ms Eva Naa Merley Lokko, a former Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has passed on.

She was said to have died on Thursday after a short battle with ill-health.

Her death was confirmed in Accra by officials of the Progressive People's Party on whose ticket she was to contest the Klottey Korle constituency parliamentary seat in the 2016 elections.

She was previously the PPP's running mate in the 2012 general election.

An articulate speaker, engineer and politician, Madam Lokko attended Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast and held a master's degree in Intelligent Management Systems, System Analysis and Design. 

She was the first satellite communications engineer in Ghana, first woman engineer at the GBC and one of the engineers who installed the first colour television infrastructure for Ghana.

She was the only female Director-General of the GBC, since its inception in 1935.

 

 

 

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