With many going for the head of the widow of late Vice President Amissah-Arthur for reason of a very hard/touching tribute she delivered to her late husband last friday at the Conference Center during the final funeral rites.
Ningo Prampram MP Samuel Nartey George thinks otherwise, he has said the tribute by Matilda Amissah-Arthur, widow of late former Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur at his funeral, was rather a wake-up call to the nation and that of politics but not an abuse as many has seen it.
Mrs Amissah-Arthur expressed shock over the wonderful tributes given about her deceased husband by some people she claimed vilified and maligned him when he was alive.
In her tribute at the final funeral rites ceremony at the Accra International Conference Centre on Friday, 27 July, Mrs Amissah-Artur said: “Over the last few weeks, I have been amazed at the number of people who have come to show appreciation and I ask myself: ‘Is this Ghana?’ Are all these people in Ghana because of the maligning, the lies, the treachery, the wickedness, the mischievousness?
“I ask myself: Is this Ghana? I ask myself is this my own husband that you have come to say tribute to? And today, I ask the same question: Did people really know my husband? Did they take time to know him? The false accusations, the lies the maligning, did they know him? My dearest, me, your children, we know you.”
Commenting on his Facebook wall, Mr Nartey George, said: “Heartfelt and extremely powerful tribute by Her Excellency former Second Lady, Madam Matilda Amissah-Arthur.
”Delivered extempore with so much passion and a wake-up call to the conscience of our nation and politics. We are a pretentious people who malign and destroy people whilst alive and celebrate their true persons in death. May the healing balm that flows from Emmanuel’s veins heal our nation.”
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Ghanaians are not HYPOCRATES besides every where you go on this earth most counteries tend to sing eulogies for the dead Ghana is no different;; this lady was wrong to show such disrespect infront of our President and elders; you ca iagine the sort of wife this lady led with Amissah-Arthur because there is a time and place for everythig; why did not this lady complain about her husband treatment by the NDC when the NDC was in government; Amissah-arthur her husband condoned the evil activities of the NDC but kept QUIET !!! becausse she was enjoying the benefits of being a second lady ; did Mrs Atta Mills say anything after the murder of Atta Mills; was the lady not aware that her husband was a the greatest political manipulator and a chameleon politician who played along with the dirty evil tricks of politics within politics.
Mark Anthony speaks, friends Romans and Countrymen learn me your ears. Politics and politics is the GAME. It started with God trowing Satan from heaven. Well done woman, i respect you.
how come that some ndc people think she was referring to npp and not ndc. hahaha. what has npp got to loose with that statement. assuming npp critized the husband's handling of the economy. was she expecting npp to parise her husband AMISSAH/ Like ndc is praising npp now i guess. hmmm. it is rather clear that she was giving it to ndc more. i heard that he tried several times to resign under MAHAMA. because he was being frustrated by this sharp teeth boys to perform to de fullest. Think about that and not npp. We care less about him then and only sympathies with the family according to our culture. He was not a member of THE osono party ooooo.
Wake up to where? Keep sleeping Sam George. Your hypocrisy and insulting conduct will be exposed one after the other. You treated the man like tras*hh so the wife said it. Now you are waking up? Keep sleeping wai!
It is the same lies that brought NDC to power in 2008 and 2012.
Sam George is the worst culprit if it comes to insults. He insulted both within and without with reckless abandon during the 2016 electioneering campaign including making unsavory comments about the flag bearer of the CPP and his own the then sitting MP. I advise that he apologises and start a campaign of no insults in politics going forward.
The widow is totally right, Ghanaian will never and ever celebrate you until you die and after your death now come they will use something to represent something. The woman was so shock about the false accusation people were saying about her husband. How can you say a lot of nasty words to a person and just after his death then change and praising that person as if the person is the messiah. Lack of knowledge my people perish.... let redefine our mindset...
It is a wake up call to the NDC as a political party. It means all is not well within the party and that there are deep cracks. There are too many people pretending and this is what the widow is telling Ghanaians. She is not a die hard politician but only a beneficiary so all that she is saying is that she saw it all, and it is not all the rosy. Mend the cracks in the party now.