Imoru Egala
{{short description|Ghanaian politician and educationist}}
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| office5 = Member of the Ghana Parliament
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| party = People's National Party
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Alhaji Imoru Egala (5 December 1916 – 1 April 1981{{cite news |title=Ghana Mourns Egala |work=Daily Graphic |publisher=Ghana Publication Group Ltd |date=3 November 2019}}) was a Ghanaian politician and educationist. He held various positions in government in the Gold Coast and after independence of Ghana. He was the foreign minister of Ghana in the First Republic between 1960 and 1961.{{cite web |author=B. Schemmel |title=Foreign ministers E-K:Ghana |url=http://rulers.org/fm2.html |access-date=11 April 2007 |publisher=Rulers.}}
Work and politics
= Minister of state (Nkrumah Government) =
File:The_National_Archives_UK_-_CO_1069-43-65.jpg, N.A. Welbeck, Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, J.E. Jantuah, Imoru Egala Sitting (L to R): A. Casely-Hayford, Kojo Botsio, Kwame Nkrumah, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, E.O. Asafu-Adjaye;]]
He was a member of the Convention People's Party. He held various cabinet posts under Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party government, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Information. He also held the position of Minister of Health and Minister of Industries at a point in time in the Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party government.
Along with serving as minister in different roles at different period in Kwame Nkrumah's administration, he also served a member of parliament for the Tumu Constituency.{{Cite web|title=Limann tried stabilising economy after chaotic revolution : Addae-Mensah|url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/features/opinion/limann-tried-stabilising-economy-after-chaotic-revolution-addae-mensah.html|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Graphic Online|language=en-gb}}{{Cite web |title=myghanalinks - 1954 Campaigns And Election Results In Ghana (Gold Coast) - Part II |url=https://www.myghanalinks.com/index.php/all-sections/features/12325-1954-campaigns-and-election-results-in-ghana-gold-coast-part-ii |access-date=2021-01-04 |website=myghanalinks}}{{Cite web |date=2015-11-25 |title=Book Review: A Short History of the Third Republic. |url=https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/Book-Review-A-Short-History-of-the-Third-Republic-396211 |access-date=2021-01-04 |website=ghanaweb |language=en}}
After the coup etat by Colonel E. Kotoka and Major Afrifa in 1966, Egala who was a well known associate of Kwame Nkrumah and a key member of his Nkrumah regime, was jailed by the military.{{Cite web|title=Alhaji Imoru Egala, a founding father of Ghana's ruling...|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/01/Alhaji-Imoru-Egala-a-founding-father-of-Ghanas-ruling/2890354949200/|access-date=2021-01-04|website=UPI|language=en}}
= People's National Party =
Egala was also a founder of the People's National Party a political party which claimed to represent and continue the Nkrumah Heritage. The People's National Party which won the 1979 presidential and parliamentary elections. He sponsored the candidacy of Dr. Hilla Limann,{{Cite book|last=Buser|first=Hans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vozYkhg_HKwC&q=an+uncle+of+President+Hilla+Limann+Imoru+Egala&pg=PA48|title=In Ghana at Independence: Stories of a Swiss Salesman|date=2011|publisher=Basler Afrika Bibliographien|isbn=978-3-905758-19-1|language=en}} who became the president of the Third Republic of Ghana,{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803EFDA1438F931A35757C0A967948260 |title= IMORU EGALA, GHANAIAN POLITICIAN AND FOUNDER OF GOVERNING PARTY |access-date=11 April 2007 |date=2 April 1981 |newspaper=The New York Times}} because he was then serving a 12-year ban from public office in Ghana.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldbank.org/aid/africa/ghana.pdf |title=Aid and Reform in Ghana |access-date=11 April 2007 |last=Tsikata |first=Yvonne M. |date=May 1999 |page=12 |work=Aid and Reform in Africa:Country case study papers |publisher=World Bank |quote=The initial choice, Mr. Imoru Egala, who founded the PNP, was under a twelve-year ban from public office dating back to 1969. He was appealing this ban at the time of the election and was hence ineligible to run for president.}}{{Cite web|title=The fall of the 3rd Republic|url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/features/opinion/the-fall-of-the-3rd-republic.html|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Graphic Online|language=en-gb}}
In January 1980, Egala began a court process against the electoral commissioner seeking redress of the court to restore his eligibility for public office.{{Cite web|title=Alhaji Imoru Egala, a founding father of Ghana's ruling...|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/01/Alhaji-Imoru-Egala-a-founding-father-of-Ghanas-ruling/2890354949200/|access-date=2021-01-04|website=UPI|language=en}}
Personal life
Alhaji Imoru Egala had four wives; Hajia Amina Egala, Hajia Memuna Egala, Hajia Adisa Egala and Susie Egala along with 12 children; three boys (Idris Egala, Dramani Egala and Osman Egala) and nine daughters (Zainabu Egala, Fati Egala, Rahinatu Egala, Ramatu Egala, Abiba Egala, Meri Egala, Zalia Egala, Fatima Egala and Rabi Egala).
Imoru is the maternal grandfather of Farouk Aliu Mahama.{{Cite web|date=2021-08-09|title=Akufo-Addo appoints Farouk Mahama as Board Chair for Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Corporation|url=https://citibusinessnews.com/2021/08/akufo-addo-appoints-farouk-mahama-as-board-chair-for-ghana-integrated-iron-and-steel-corporation/|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Citi Business News|language=en-US}}
Death
Alhaji Imoru Egala died on 1 April 1981 in Accra, Ghana.
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{{s-ttl|title=Minister for Industries | years=1965}}
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Category:Ghanaian MPs 1954–1956
Category:Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965
Category:Ministers for foreign affairs of Ghana