Robert Mensah Abbey was a Ghanaian boxer and politician.
Before politics, Abbey was a professional boxer and later clerk who worked in Accra.
[2][3] Abbey was nominated by the Convention People's Party to contest for the Accra West seat in the 1956 Gold Coast legislative election in place of Thomas Hutton-Mills who had been appointed deputy commissioner of the Gold Coast.
[4][3] He won the seat and served as a member of parliament for Accra West from 1956 to 1965.
[5][6][7][8] In 1965 he became the member of parliament representing the Okaikwei electoral district.