at the ministry, he enrolled at the Ghana School of Law and was called to the Ghana Bar in 1987. In 1992, he retired from public service to pursue a career in private law and politics. He owned Ankobra FM, a private radio station based in Axim. Political career In the 1996 general election, the New Patriotic Party had a strategic political partnership with the Convention People's Party, dubbed The Great Alliance. One result of the partnership allowed Armah to win the Evalue Gwira seat in 1996. He lost his bid to be re-elected as MP for the constituency in 2000. In the 2004 parliamentary election the New Patriotic Party went into alliance again with the Convention People's Party and presented Armah as a unified candidate. He won the election and returned to parliament in 2005. In the 2008 parliamentary election Armah lost his bid for re-election to Catherine Afeku of the New Patriotic Party. Municipal Chief Executive When the New Patriotic Party won the 2000 general election, President John Agyekum Kufour appointed Armah as the Municipal Chief Executive for Nzema East District. Armah served in that position for one term, from 2000 through the end of 2004. Kojo Armah Committee Armah was made chair of the Kojo Armah Committee, an ad hoc committee of parliament. The committee was set up to investigate the circumstances leading to the substitution of cocaine evidence with corn dough at the Police Narcotics Exhibit Room in the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service. Personal life In 1973 Armah married Sabina Akainyah; they had three children. He was a member of the Catholic Church. Death Armah died on 4 May 2014 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He died on the same weekend and at the same hospital as Kofi Ansah, an internationally acclaimed Ghanaian fashion designer. References 1945 births 2014 deaths Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians Ghanaian MPs 1997–2001 Ghanaian MPs 2005–2009 20th-century Ghanaian lawyers University of Ghana alumni Ghana School of Law alumni University of Cape Coast alumni Ghanaian diplomats People from Western Region (Ghana) Ghanaian educators Ghanaian Roman Catholics