Ghana and the rest of the world are both home to numerous secret societies.
These organizations, commonly referred to as the brotherhood, meet in private and the general public is unaware of little to nothing about them.
This is because society as a whole considers their information to be confidential. The Freemasons are one of Ghana’s most well-known secret society organizations.
Former president John Agyekum Kufuor, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Ghanaian historian Henry Martey Newman, professor Christopher Ameyaw-Ekumfi, and Effutu MP Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin are among the most well-known personalities in the nation who are Freemasons.
Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin has disclosed how he was initiated into the brotherhood; Freemason – years after his identity with this group took many Ghanaians by surprise.
He noted that a former national chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), the late Harona Esseku was the one who led him to join the freemason.
The Effutu MP added that Harona Esseku ensured that he rose through the ranks to hold a good position in the brotherhood.
Disclosing this in a tribute to the late Harona Esseku on Saturday, October 1, 2022, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin said, “He [Esseku] taught me the fine details of being a politician with an enviable code. He also showed me the doors to masonry and led my young hands into its hallowed chambers.”
“Indeed, he laboured day and night to teach me that all squares and perpendiculars are perfect points to know a brother. He did not end there. He ensured that I immersed myself in the brotherhood and rose quickly through the ranks, on merit, to take a seat in the “East,” he added.
Harona Esseku died on August 3, 2022, at age 88.