Mariam Iddrisu

Mariam Iddrisu is the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Sagnarigu Municipality in Ghana's Northern Region.[1]

Mariam Iddrisu
Metropolitan Chief Executive Sagnarigu Municipality
Personal details
NationalityGhana
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
Alma materTamale Technical University

Education

Iddrisu attended the Ghana Senior High School, in Koforidua from 1997 to 1999.[2] She was subsequently enrolled at the Tamale Technical University (formerly known as the Tamale Polytechnic) where she studied Secretaryship and Management from 2001 to 2003. She later obtained an Master's degree in Community Health and Development from the University of Development Studies, Tamale from 2012 - 2014. In 2014 she and Mahama Saaka published "Patterns and determinants of essential newborn care practices in rural areas of northern Ghana" which recommended that the country's newborn care should be extended from medical centre into wider community.[3]

Career

She is a former Senior Executive Officer of Ghana Health Service in 2005. She was selected as the youngest mayor in Ghana for the Sagnarigu Municipality in 2017. Over 200 people have similar positions in Ghana but only 36 of them are women.[4] In her new role she identified that contracts were only being awarded to men and she has made changes so that women are considered for this work.[4] In 2019 she was one of the Vice Presidents of the Network for Locally Elected Women of Africa (REFELA - West Africa), which seeks to increase women’s leadership in local communities across Africa.[5][6] Prior to being elected as a Mayor, she worked as a Public Health Practitioner working with the Ghana Health Service, and has authored research on women’s health in local communities.[7]

In 2019 as Vice-President of the Network of Locally Elected Women of Africa and as mayor she went to eThekwini in South Africa to attend the World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments and World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders. She presented on the subject of intergenerational peace and solidarity.[8]

She is a member of the New Patriotic Party.[9] In 2021 she was threatened by former colleagues who invaded Radio Tamale where she was being interviewed. The group who tried to assault her were annoyed as they believed that she had moved away from the group that got her elected.[10]

Family life

She is married to Alhaji Engr. Mohammed Habib Abdallah with six children.[11]

References
  1. "MCE – Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly". Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. "MCE – Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly". 2020-11-25. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  3. "Patterns and determinants of essential newborn care practices in rural areas of northern Ghana". catalog.ihsn.org. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  4. "Hon. Mariam Iddrisu, the MCE of Sagnarigu, deserves to be celebrated". GhanaWeb. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  5. "Sagnarigu MCE gets International post to champion course of women and children". GhanaWeb. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  6. "With REFELA, we saw small steps for women and a big leap for equality". Africities The most important democratic gathering in Africa. 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  7. Saaka, Mahama; Iddrisu, Mariam (2014-03-11). "Patterns and Determinants of Essential Newborn Care Practices in Rural Areas of Northern Ghana". International Journal of Population Research. 2014: e404387. doi:10.1155/2014/404387. ISSN 2090-4029.
  8. "Highlights and images of main proceedings for 15 November 2019". IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  9. "Sagnarigu MCE appointed part of NPP campaign team N/R". GhanaWeb. 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  10. "TAMALE: NPP Women Group Invade Radio Station To Beat Up Former MCE - Opera News". gh.opera.news. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  11. "MCE – Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly". Retrieved 2021-05-27.
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