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J.H Mensah laid to rest
J.H. Mensah was a well-respected figure in the NPP, serving in three different ministerial positions during John Agyekum Kufuor’s time as President.
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The 89-year-old founding member of the governing party, passed away in the early hours of Thursday July 12, 2018 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.President Nana Akufo-Addo who was among other dignitaries at the burial service described the late politician as someone with profound attachment to democratic values and a subscriber of “the concept of development in freedom, the mantra of the Dankwa-Dombo-Busia political tradition.”
Other statesmen and bigwigs from the two major parties were also present to pay their last respect to the fallen hero. Former President John Agyekum-Kufuor, Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament Mike Oquaye, Minister of Food and Agriculture Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, National Chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay, Senior Minister Osafo Marfo, Interior Minister Ambrose Dery, General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and other Members of Parliament were on the list.
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He retired from active politics in 2005, having been appointed as Senior Minister by the then President Kufour.
The late J.H. Mensah was also a key player in Parliament, becoming the first man to serve as Minority leader and a Majority leader in the Fourth Republic
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