A state burial service is currently underway at the forecourt of the State House on January 5, 2024, to honour the late Enoch Teye Mensah, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram and ex-Minister of Sports.
Enoch Teye Mensah, affectionately known as ET Mensah, passed away in October 2023, and he is expected to be buried immediately following the state funeral.
Prominent figures from the government, including President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, and senior advisor Yaw Osafo Maafo, as well as ministers of state and other government appointees, have gathered at the State House to pay their last respects.
The funeral also sees the presence of key members of ET Mensah’s political party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), including the party’s flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, National Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, General Secretary Fifi Kwetey, and former Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho.
Members of the Ghanaian Parliament, where ET Mensah served for about a decade, including the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, and legislators from both the minority and majority caucuses, have also joined the service.
On January 4, 2024, the late ET Mensah’s body was laid in state at his Prampram residence.
A Thanksgiving service is scheduled to take place in his honour at the Methodist Church in Prampram on Sunday, January 7, 2024.
ET Mensah passed away in South Africa at the age of 77 after battling ill health for some time.
His illustrious career included serving as a Minister for Youth, Sports and Education, and he held the position of Member of Parliament from January 1997 to January 2017. ET Mensah is survived by a wife and seven children.
