Atta Kesson is dead

The death is reported of Mr Roland Atta- Kesson at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra on Saturday August 20, 2005.

He was 70.

He was the Member of Parliament for Wassa West on the ticket of the People?s National Party- PNP during the late Hilla Liman?s regime and rose to the position of a deputy Chief Whip in Parliament.

A staunch Nkrumahist, a lawyer and a pastor, the deceased was also a founding member of the National Convention Party ?NCP and later became its national chairman during which the party went into alliance with the National Democratic Congress- NDC in 1992.

The late Atta-Kesson retired from active politics in 1996 and became a Reverend minister at the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

He left behind a wife and six children.