Mahama attends one-week memorial service for the late Lee Ocran

The gathering was also graced by the family members and loved ones of the former Ghanaian Ambassador to South Africa.

Lee Ocran died before midnight at his residence in Accra on Thursday, February 21, 2019 after a protracted illness.

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In 2000 he was Deputy Minister of Environment Science and Technology. Since January 2005 as a candidate from the National Democratic Congress, he was Member of Parliament for the Jomoro Constituency until he lost his seat to the daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, Samia Nkrumah of the Convention People's Party in the December 2008 parliamentary election.

He served as Minister for Education of Ghana from 2012 to 2013. Ocran was appointed Minister by President John Atta Mills in February 2012 in a cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Betty Mould-Iddrisu from the government and the sacking of Martin Amidu.