Madam Ama Busia, the former first Vice Chairperson of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) and sister of the late Kofi Abrefa Busia, former Ghanaian prime minister, has passed on.
Dr Obeng Busia, the son of Ama Busia said his mother died at the Nyaho Medical Centre in the early hours of Tuesday, 12 December 2023. She was 87 years old.
Until her demise, she was a member of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) Council of Elders due to the commendable role she played during the formation of NPP.
She is known for her protests and political criticisms against the Acheampong government.
As a local member and activist for the party, Ama Busia was arrested seven times and records indicate that she was detained for 90 days during her last arrest.
Ama Busia lost their father at age 6 and lost her mother at age 13. She had a challenging life before becoming successful through education. The emergence of the Northern People’s Party by Dombo which later joined forces with Danquah and Busia gave birth to the current New Patriotic Party (NPP).
During that time, Ama Busia joined the founding members’ team and placed the then-PNDC government on its toes. When the New Patriotic Party NPP won power with John Agyekum Kufuor in the year 2000, Ama Busia became a Council of State member.
As a brilliant political figure and a strong member of the NPP, she once occupied the first and third National vice chairperson positions of the New Patriotic Party.
Ama Busia had her primary education at Wenchi Methodist School and Methodist Middle Girls’ School in Kumasi. She trained as a teacher at the Komenda Training College.
In 1959, she went into exile in London with her brother, Kofi Abrefa Busia and there she studied Institutional Management and Catering at the Regent Street Polytechnic.
The late Ama Busia has been a strong supporter of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s vision of leading the NPP to ‘break the 8’ in 2024.
According to her, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is a gem and for that matter, she held him in high esteem.