The former Member of Parliament for Talensi Constituency, John Tia Akologo, has been reported dead.
According to report, he died in Bolga this Sunday morning after falling ill briefly.
Mr Tia got involved in local politics in 1982 when he became the Press Secretary of the Upper East Regional Secretariat of Peoples Defence Committees/Workers Defence Committees set up by the Provisional National Defence Council military government.
He was elected an MP in the 1992 parliamentary election as a National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate.
He has been the MP for Talensi constituency since the first parliament in the Fourth Republic from January 1993.
He was also a Member of the ECOWAS Parliament. In 2009, he was appointed by President Mills as Minister for Information.
In 2012, he lost his bid to retain the Talensi seat to Robert N. Doameng Mosore, an independent candidate.
In 2016, he announced his decision to no longer contest in the parliamentary elections.
John Tia also served as Ghana’s Ambassador to Cuba under former President John Mahama.
