Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey

Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey, CBE was a Ghanaian police officer, diplomat and politician. E.R.T. Madjitey , was appointed Police Commissioner in the Gold Coast on October 9, 1958, making him not only the first Ghanaian to head the Ghana Police Service, but also the first African South of the Sahara and the British Commonwealth to command a Police Force.

E.R.T. Madjitey was born onNovember 1920 at Aframase, in the Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. His father was a local chief, Asafoatse Madjitey I and his mother was one of his three wives, Madam Ogbeko Madjitey. He was the fifth of seven children. E.R.T. Madjitey started his education at Obenyemi, where he lived with his uncle Mr. J. A. Okumador. He had his basic education at Presbyterian Junior School at OdumaseKrobo, and Presbyterian Senior Boys Secondary School at Bana Hill. He started his secondary education at Mfantsipim School and completed at Adisadel College in 1940. He then continued to Achimota College, the predecessor of the University of Ghana, where he excelled with an Inter BA. He married Vera Scales in 1949.

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