Reading a tribute to a dearly departed is not easy. I learned that the hard way last year when I broke down in tears reading one about my late uncle and Ebusuapanyin at the St Cyprian Anglican Church, Kumasi.
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I long ago – in political time, that is – decided that the former Editor of The Statesman, the newspaper originally founded in the late 1940s by Justice Edward Akufo-Addo, later to become Ceremonial President of Ghana under the Westminster-fashioned tenure of Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia, and the father of our incumbent President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was not worth the least bit jousting with publicly. You see, this is a former Akufo-Addo protégé, a Rawlings-immured refugee ostracized by the recently deceased Founding-Father of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and husband of the younger sister of Mr. Rawlings widow, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawling, and a Mahama-minted mercenary “Ambassador” or “High Commissioner.”