Progressive People’s Party parliamentary aspirant for Klottey Korle constituency Mrs Eva Lokko has passed away.
She was the first woman to be chosen as the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party.
Lokko attended Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast. She was an engineer by profession and holds a master’s degree in Intelligent Management Systems, System Analysis and Design.
Lokko was the first Satellite Communications Engineer and the first woman engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in 1972. She was part of the engineering team that installed and maintained Ghana’s first colour television infrastructure in 1985.
She has worked in over forty countries across the world in various capacities. She served as regional programme coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme initiative for Internet development in Africa. She worked with theUnited Nations for thirteen years and also served as chairperson of the UN Federation of International Civil Servants Association and the United Nations Staff Council and as a member of the UNDP News Advisory Board.
She was the Chief Executive Officer of Totally Youth, a Non Governmental Organization based in Accra. In 2002, she was appointedDirector-General of the GBC, becoming the first and only woman to hold that position since the corporation was established in 1953.
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