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Irene Naa Torshie Addo


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Date of Birth:
1970-09-30
Place of Birth:
Osu, Accra

Irene Naa Torshie Addo is a Ghanaian politician and lawyer, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Member of Parliament for Tema West Constituency.

Irene Naa Torshie Addo was born in Osu, Accra, on 30 September 1970.

She is a lawyer by profession and earned an LLM (Gender and Development Studies) from the University of Warwick in 1999.

As a member of the New Patriotic Party, she became Member of the Ghana Parliament for Tema West during the 2008 elections and assumed office on 7 January 2009 to 6 January 2017 after losing the New Patriotic Party's primaries to Carlos Ahenkorah in 2015.

Divorced with two children, she is a Christian who is a Baptist by denomination. She has two daughters in her first marriage: Samantha and Simone and a son named Stanely.

The eldest Samantha Abigail Nana Adobea Addo. The second Simone Antonia Naa Adoley Addo and the youngest Stanely Walter Kwamena Adom Addo.

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