In the early hours of Saturday morning 28th November 2020,
President Akufo-Addo, Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Speaker of
Parliament, and Professor Mike Oquaye paid their last respect at the funeral of
the late Ekow Quansah Hayford, MP for Mfantseman in the Central region.
Hundreds of mourners, loved
ones, family members and sympathisers also joined the president in the
Mfansteman, Central Region to pay their last respects.
The legislator was killed by
armed robbers in October while he was returning from a campaign trip.
The General Secretary of the New
Patriotic Party, John Boadu, who read a tribute on behalf of the party, said
the best departing gift would be to win the Mfansteman seat for the NPP.
In paying her last respect to
her departed husband, wife of the late MP and now NPP Parliamentary Candidate
for Mfansteman, Madam Ophelia Hayford, said she was still devastated by her
husband’s passing.
He “did everything thing protect
the children and me,” she said,
She also recalled that he was always “full of smiles and unconditional love,” in her tribute.
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