{{Short description|Ghanaian lawyer and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Alex Segbefia | native_name = | native_name_lang = | honorific_suffix = | image = Dr. Alex Segbefia (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Minister for Health | term_start = May 2015 | term_end = January 2017 | president = John Dramani Mahama | constituency = | majority = | predecessor = Kwaku Agyemang Manu | successor = | order2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | office2 = Deputy Minister of Defence | term_start2 = 2014 | term_end2 = 2015 | alongside2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | president2 = John Dramani Mahama | predecessor2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | successor2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | constituency2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | majority2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | order3 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> | office3 = Deputy Chief of Staff<ref name="grap">{{Cite news | url=http://graphic.com.gh/news/politics/27021-i-never-applied-for-british-citizenship-segbefia.html |location=Accra, Ghana| title=I never applied for British citizenship – Segbefia | date=14 July 2014 | accessdate=3 January 2016 | author=Smith-Asante, Edmund|newspaper=Daily Graphic}}</ref> | term_start3 = 2009 | term_end3 = 2013 | president3 = John Atta Mills | birth_date = <!--{{Birth date and age|1963||}} Day and month unknown from source--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | citizenship = | party = National Democratic Congress | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = | partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Lawyer | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Alexander Percival Segbefia''' (born {{circa}} 1963<ref name="grap"/>) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was the Deputy Chief of Staff during Mills government.<ref name="gna">{{cite web | url=http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2014/July-13th/segbefia-promises-to-investigate-alleged-imbalance-at-ghana-armed-forces.php | title=Segbefia promises to investigate alleged imbalance at Ghana Armed Forces | publisher=Ghana News Agency | date=13 July 2014 | accessdate=3 January 2016 | archive-date=1 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001160530/http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2014/July-13th/segbefia-promises-to-investigate-alleged-imbalance-at-ghana-armed-forces.php | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was appointed the Minister of Health under the John Dramani Mahama administration.<ref name="ghgov">{{cite web | url=http://www.presidency.gov.gh/node/944 | title=Alex Segbefia & co sworn in | publisher=presidency.gov.gh | date=19 May 2015 | accessdate=3 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105043319/http://www.presidency.gov.gh/node/944 | archive-date=5 November 2016 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
== Career == Alex Segbefia had his secondary school education at Achimota School. He qualified as a lawyer in the UK and practised law in the UK in various capacities such as Crown Prosecutor, and then eventually becoming the Acting District Crown Prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).<ref>{{Cite news|title=I never applied for British citizenship – Segbefia|url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/politics/i-never-applied-for-british-citizenship-segbefia.html|location=Accra, Ghana|access-date=2021-03-06|newspaper=Daily Graphic|language=en-gb}}</ref>
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