Joseph Yieleh Chireh
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Honourable Joseph Yieleh Chireh MP |
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| Member of Parliament of Ghana for Wa West |
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Assumed office Jan 2005 |
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| Preceded by | (New Constituency) |
| Majority | 16,368 (57.71%) |
| Member of the Pan-African Parliament | |
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Assumed office 8 May 2017 |
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| Minister for Health | |
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In office Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 |
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| President | John Atta Mills |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Kunbuor |
| Succeeded by | Alban Bagbin |
| Minister for Local Government and Rural Development | |
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In office Feb 2009 – Jan 2011 |
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| President | John Atta Mills |
| Preceded by | Kwadjo Adjei-Darko |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo |
| Minister for the Upper West Region | |
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In office Feb 1993 – Jan 1997 |
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| President | Jerry Rawlings |
| Preceded by | Yelibora Antumini |
| Succeeded by | Amidu Sulemana |
| Ambassador to Algeria | |
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In office 1997–2001 |
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| President | Jerry Rawlings |
| Personal details | |
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July 8, 1954 Lassia Tuolu, Ghana |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Political party | National Democratic Congress |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| Profession | Pharmacist, Barrister |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Joseph Yieleh Chireh (born 8 July 1954) is a Ghanaian pharmacist, barrister, diplomat and politician. He is the Member for Parliament for Wa West. He is also a Member of the Pan-African Parliament.
Chireh was born in Lassia Tuolu in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He studied at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1975 and obtained the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 1979. He proceeded to the Ghana School of Law in 2001 and qualified as a barrister in 2006.
Chireh joined the National Democratic Congress when it was formed in 1992 on the resumption of party politics in Ghana. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings as Upper West Regional Minister in his government in 1993. He was subsequently made the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Algeria with concurrent accreditation to Tunisia, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Mauritania between 1997 and 2001. He contested the newly created Wa West constituency seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in December 2004, which he won leading to his taking his seat in the Fourth parliament of the Fourth Republic. He retained his seat in the 2008 and 2012 parliamentary elections.
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