A delegation made up of stalwarts of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is in South Africa to finalise the arrangement to fly back home the body of former Youth and Sports Minister, Enoch Teye Mensah, popularly known as E. T. Mensah.
ET Mensah, a member of Ghana’s Council of State died on Sunday, October 1, 2023 in South Africa where he was undergoing treatment. He was 77.
The delegation sent by the party and government was led by Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, former Greater Accra Regional Minister and former Member of Parliament for Kpone-Katamanso Constituency. He is currently the Caretaker Chief of Kpone-Katamanso.
The rest are: Ade Coker, the former Greater Accra Regional Chairman of NDC; Ebenezer Mensah, junior brother of ET Mensah and Diana Nortey, the Queen Mother of Prampram.
The team was met on arrival by the NDC South African Chapter led by Benjamin Kofi Quashie and other chapter executives and members who have been liaising with the family and the party since the demise of the party stalwart.
There were lots of NDC sympathizers who thronged the airport to receive the high level delegation from Ghana.
Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Charles Owiredu sent a representative, Philip Acquah, minister in charge of Consular Affairs to welcome the delegation at the airport and to express their condolences to the grieving families.
The body would be brought to Ghana on Tuesday, October 10.
Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has notified the family that he wants to be at the Kotoka International Airport, together with the members of the Council of State, to receive the body of one of Ghana’s illustrious sons.
President Akufo-Addo described E. T. Mensah, a former Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, as a “good friend”, adding that he “was a warm, generous, gregarious man with a keen intellect and a wonderful sense of humour.”
The NDC on Thursday directed that all party flags fly at half-mast in honour of Mr Enoch Teye Mensah and another party stalwart, Dr. Sidney Laryea