“Forty (40) years and five months, we lived together”, those were her words to her husband and as it is with such tributes, Mrs Amissah-Arthur went on to extol her departing husband’s virtues – virtues very few people will disagree with.’
“Paa Kwesi was a thorough person who paid attention to detail; a very meticulous man. Those of us close to you know the sacrifices you made for the country from as far back as the late 1970s”, she added
“A simple, honest, principled man of integrity you are my dear husband”, Mrs Amissah-Arthur said of the departing economics gem before deciding to go extempore to the amazement of the many gathered.
In a typical say-it-and-free-yourself style, she took on society, perhaps the political class, instead, reminding them of their ways.
“Over the last few weeks I’ve been amazed at the number of people who have come to show us love and I ask myself ‘is this Ghana, are all these people in Ghana”, she asked rhetorically.
To make things clearer to the gathering and maybe, those watching from their homes, she provided the answer, with one hand raised: “Because the maligning, the lies, the treachery, the wickedness and the deliberately changing of things so that we could look better than others [and] the mischievousness…”
“Is this Ghana,” she questioned further.
She suggested that Ghana didn’t know her husband or perhaps didn’t take time to know him before concluding that “We knew you, and we know you are a rare gem, and we treasure you, and we are very proud of you,” she said.
Kwesi Amissah-Arthur died on June 29, 2018, after he collapsed at the Airforce Gym in Accra during a workout session.
He is expected to be buried at the military cemetery in Accra.