The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, the Most Reverend Titus K. Awotwi Pratt has described late former vice president Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur as a rare politician.

According to him, the late Former Vice President was one of the few Ghanaian politicians who entered politics with the motive of ensuring that Ghanaians had a better life.

Most Reverend Awotwi made this statement on Friday during the state burial of late former vice president.

Declaring that the ideals, ideas and principles of Mr Amissah-Arthur “will never ever die,” the Methodist Presiding Bishop said, “We as a nation are bereft of a patriotic, a decent and truly incorruptible statesman.”

He added; “He never did politics that stole, never did politics that milked the national purse,”

“If we were to have persons of his type,” Most Reverend Awotwi told the congregants at the burial ceremony “to hold office these over sensitive areas of our economy, this country will be better and different.”

“We deserve the best and can be beyond aid should we believe and love Ghana as brother Bekoe believed in and loved Ghana,” he added.

Mr Amissah-Arthur, was buried on Friday, 27 July 2018 at the Military Cemetery in Accra.

He was, on Thursday, 26 July 2018, laid in state at the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) where former ministers of state in the John Mahama administration, politicians from Mr Amissah-Arthur’s party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), opposition party members, and a government delegation led by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo, as well as family, friends and the public, filed past his remains to pay their last respects.

The former vice president who served as a Governor of the Bank of Ghana between 2009 to 2012 passed away at age 67 on the  29th of June 2018 at the 37 Military Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Mr. Amissah-Arthur was reportedly jogging in the gym at the Air Force Gym where he collapsed.

He was the fifth Vice-President of the Fourth Republic and was in office from August 6, 2012, until January 7, 2017, under President John Dramani Mahama.

He also served as the Deputy Secretary for Finance in the PNDC government from February 1986 to March 1993.

From April 1993, he continued as the Deputy Minister for Finance in the under the Fourth Republic’s first government until March 1997.

He was survived by a wife and two children.