Managing Editor of "The Ghanaian Voice" laid to rest

Accra, March 29, GNA - The body of the late Daniel Kwabena Menyah Ansah, Managing Editor of "The Ghanaian Voice" was laid to rest at the Osu Cemetery on Saturday.

The scene at the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Days Saints, Latebiokorshie was sorrowful as the mortal remains of Mr Ansah was ushered into the Auditorium for the burial and memorial Service.

Hearts were sore, tears trickled the eyes of loved ones and relations and friends were under emotional trauma. In a sermon, a High Counsellor of the Church, Brother Kofi Aggrey-Barlow said a man's life on earth is 'probational' and a day of reckoning would come so each one must prepare for that day.

In a tribute, Mrs Christie Ansah, described the husband as a born-Journalist, "I am sure he couldn't have done better in any field than Journalism.

"He was very sociable, and like any loving husband would do, he included me in his social life, taking me along with him to all his social events and gatherings."

The Children said their late father was a humanitarian who gave everything he had to the best of his ability and was ever ready to cut his losses to help others especially those he hardly knew.

"Our father had a keen sense of speaking freely about what he believed in, no matter the circumstances. Had a common outlook on things and lived by everyday rules and morals of society, lived to the fullest and knew how to relate to everyone he met anywhere' The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) described him as one of the most versatile veteran Journalist in Ghana's newspaper industry.

A veteran Trade Unionist, Mr J. A. Hamah, said the Late Ansah was a self-made man, a professional journalist who struggled over the years against great odds to establish himself as a private newspaper publisher. "He was hardworking, irrepressible, courageous, adventurous and unremitting, a man of hearty sense of humour as well as practised taciturnity.

"For Dan to be reckoned as one of the daring young men to establish and sustain the private newspaper publishing industry in the country to date, is no mean achievement and task."

The National Media Commission (NMC) said the late Dan Ansah helped to deepen the culture of high journalistic standards in the country. Dan Ansah was born on October 6th, 1942 and departed on January 31, 2003. He left behind a wife and five children.

There were tributes from the Government, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Former Vice President Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the British High Commission, and the Private Newspapers Publishers Association (PRINPAG).