President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the late vice president Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur as a vibrant personality in the national life of Ghana. 

Paying tributes to the late statesman in Accra, The President said “he was a vibrant personality in our national for life, who still had so much in him to give to our dear country. Although he was not a close friend of mine, and we were on opposite sides of the political divide, I admired and respected him”. 

According to him, Mr. Arthur was a fine public servant, a man of dignity and humility, who conducted himself well in the public space of Ghana.

Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur’s death is not only a loss for his party, the National Democratic Congress, or his family, or for the community from which he came. It is a loss for the entire country. Ghana is poorer for his departure, he noted.

The former President, John Dramani Mahama for his part, said the late vice President has served Ghana wholeheartedly…. “one quality that set Paa Kwesi apart was service. He served his country, his party and the world in many different capacities, and he distinguished himself in every one of them”. 

“As the typically humble and action-over-words-oriented person that he was, he was not boastful of his accomplishments. He was practical, not theoretical. He simply let his work and his achievements speak for him. This is why when certain questions were directed at him in the heat of the campaign, he said to me, “Mr. President, these questions are frivolous. We will not be distracted by them.” 
Today, Paa Kwesi stands vindicated, Mr. Mahama mentioned. 

He stated that Paa Kwesi’s contribution to The NDC was admirable, “Indeed, he served diligently as Ghana’s longest serving Deputy Secretary and later Deputy Minister for Finance under the PNDC and NDC administrations of former President Jerry John Rawlings. 
	
My working relationship with Paa Kwesi took firm roots when he was Governor of the Bank 

of Ghana, during which period I was Head of the Economic Management Team under our late President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills. It was during this period that I, just like many others, came to appreciate Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur’s razor-sharp intellect and noted how his deep intelligence and knowledge of practical matters could lead to the fast-track realization of sustainable social and economic prosperity for all our people”.


Story by Edzorna Francis Mensah

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