Techiman North MP eulogizes Adjei-Mensah

Mr. Alex Kyeremeh, Member of Parliament (MP) for Techiman North, has eulogized the late Mr. Isaac Kwadwo Adjei-Mensah, ex-MP of the Constituency, for his immense contributions towards the area’s development and progress.

He said the Techiman North was “Mr. Adjei-Mensah’s baby,” since he was the architect of the provision of electricity, water, schools and motorable roads that had transformed the current socio-economic status of the Constituency which was now a district.

Mr. Kyeremeh who was eulogizing Mr. Adjei-Mensah in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Saturday at Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo Region cited that, as the pioneer MP since Ghana’s current parliamentary democracy began in 1992, Mr. Adjei-Mensah facilitated the establishment of four community Senior High Schools (SHSs) at Aworowa, Ofuman, Buoyem and Tuobodom in the area.

These schools have all been absorbed now by government into the public system while a number of products from them have completed tertiary institutions and contributing in diverse ways to the progress of the country, he added.

The late Mr. Adjei-Mensah, former Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister from January 1993 to January 1997 was also Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing from January 1997 to January 2001 during the era of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings.

He died on June 7 and was buried on Saturday August 22 at his hometown, Jama Tampori, near Techiman, while the final funeral rite was held at Techiman.

Mr. Adjei-Mensah who was a Ghana Bar Association (GBA) member of good standing since 1971 to date was also a three-term MP of Techiman North from January 1993 till January 2004 when he retired from active Politics.

Mr. Kyeremeh, also a Deputy Minister of Education who was mentored by Lawyer Adjei-Mensah to succeed him retained the Techiman North seat for the National Democratic Congress in the Election 2004 to enter Parliament for the first time in January 2005 but lost the seat to Professor Christopher Ameyaw Akumfi of the New Patriotic Party in the Election 2008.

He said Lawyer Adjei-Mensah would be remembered for his humility, humble leadership style and qualities and described him as a politically tolerant person who would hardly use vituperative and invective language against his political opponents.

“One thing we must all emulate about him is”, Lawyer Adjei-Mensah was nationalistic and therefore believed in the use of politics as an instrument of unity but not to divide the populace, Mr. Kyeremeh added.

For the greater part of his law practice,Mr Adjei-Mensah, was President of the Brong-Ahafo Regional Bar Association, Counsel for the State Insurance Company for the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo Regions and then also legal advisor of Mim Timber Company Limited (now Ayum Forests Products Limited).

Mr. Adjei-Mensah who left behind a wife, Mrs. Margaret Adjei-Mensah and 10 daughters, including Lawyer Mrs. Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts and Mrs. Theresa Adjei-Mensah Boakye, an Assistant Director at the Sunyani Municipal Assembly was until his death Board Chair of the Bui Power Authority.