Mrs. Amissah-Arthur's outburst was directed at Mahama's appointees - Former NDC Ambassador
1st August 2018
The infamous outburst by Ghana's former second lady, Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, at the funeral of her late husband Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, was a direct message to some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) according to Ghana’s former consul to Dubai, ambassador Daniel Osei.
According to the former UAE consul, some persons at the Presidency during former President Mahama’s regime prevented the late former vice president from executing his duties fully.
An anguished former second Lady in her tribute to her late husband at the latter’s funeral at the Accra International Conference Centre, (AICC) last Friday condemned what she described as the deliberate lies and wickedness against her late husband by some politicians.
She expressed shock at the show of love by her husband’s detractors after his death.
“Over the last few weeks, I’m amazed at the number of people who have come to show us love and I ask myself is this Ghana, are all these people in Ghana? Because the maligning, the lies, the treachery, the wickedness, the deliberately changing things so that you could look better than others, the mischievousness, I ask myself is this Ghana? I ask myself is this my own husband that people have come to pay tribute to and today I ask myself did people really know my husband, did they take time to know him, the false accusations, the lies, the maligning, did they know him? My dearest, me, Your Children, Kwesi, Maame Boatemaa, Yaw, Akyere, your grandchildren, Emily, Kwamena and Eleanor, we knew you and we know you and we know you’re a real gem, and we treasure you and we’re very proud of you.”
Speaking on the fall out from the emotional tribute Mrs Amissah Arthur, the Mahama appointed Ambassador, Daniel Osei indicated that the aggrieved widow didn’t mince words in her tribute as she spoke against the hypocrisy of Ghanaians, and those individuals who consistently attacked and maligned her husband.
According to him, the outburst by Mrs Amissah Arthur was not directed to the political opponents of the late Veep.
” She spoke directly to individuals. Those individuals who deliberately changed stuff to bring down his husband, those individuals who maligned him.
He added: “A lot of people didn’t even know that late Amissah Arthur’s child is an eye doctor who participated in the first successful eye transplant; a very big accomplishment.
“Just look at this example, I just mentioned, that his child was part of the team that conducted the first surgery on eye transplant and people within the Presidency deliberately killed this story because they don’t want him to shine better than others,” Ambassador Osei alleged.