Veep attends Prof. Kwapongs burial service

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur joined hundreds of mourners for the burial Service of the late Professor Alexander Adum Kwapong, the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana.

Prof. Kwapong, who was 87, was born at Akropong Akuapem in the Eastern Region to the late Emmanuel Adum Kwapong and Theophilia Amma Opokua Kwapong.

The late Prof Kwapong was survived by a wife, Mrs Evelyn Kwapong, six daughters and eight grandchildren.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur, who led the government delegation, was accompanied by his wife, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur.

Other dignitaries present at the burial service were former President John Agyekum Kufuor, representative of former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, Members of the Council of State, former Ministers of States, the Diplomatic Corps and Nana Akufo-Addo, former Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Additionally, there was a large number of people from the country’s academia and intelligentsia, who came to mourn their departed senior colleague.

The wife, children, grandchildren, siblings, former President Rawlings, former President Kufuor, members of the Council of State, the Judicial Service of Ghana, University of Ghana, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Achimota School and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana all paid solemn tributes to honour their departed loved one.

Rev. Dr Jonathan Mensah, Presbyterian Minister, Accra Ridge Church, in a sermon, charged Christians to glorify God for what he has entrusted into their hands.

He said as Christians, “we are only stewards of God’s property and one day we would be asked to render an account of all that we've been given by the Lord.”

He urged Christians to follow the examples of the Bible story, where three people were given the talent to work with and manage it.

According to the family of the late Prof Kwapong, the deceased would be given a private burial in-line with their customs and tradition.

Later, Vice President Amissah-Arthur was the first to lay a wreath near the casket of the deceased, followed by the family, University of Ghana and the Council of State.