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TRIBUTE
TO A MARTYR By The Journalist Gifted in oratory, glibness, practicality, level-headedness, fairness and compassion, Nana Baffour had defied and survived insurmountable odds in the 60s, including detention for 7 years with hard labor, by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and the Conventional People’s Party (C.P.P.); a period in which most of Nana Baffour’s contemporaries lost their lives the most notable being that of Dr. J. B. Danquah, an academic and prolific politician of the times. Nana Baffour Osei Akoto, 98 , passed on to his ‘village’ peaceully in
his home at Asokwa in the wee hours of September 3, 2002. Blessed with
a long, rich, full and healthy life, he had been hospitalized at Okomfo
Anokye Hospital in Kumasi three weeks before his demise. TRIBUTE
TO BAFFOUR OSEI AKOTO by Serwah Akoto Coker Paapa, Paapa, we will miss you.!!!!!!!!!!!!! The above statement, to us your children is the greatest understatement of the century. What shall we do without your advice, without your wisdom, without your compassion? A man who loved his children like a woman, so much so that your daughters especially, hesitated in informing you of their marital problems and their pregnancies, because you would want to be there at the birthing? What would we do without your humour? Our friends doubted the fact that you ever laughed with us but your humour never ceased to send us to peals of laughter. What would we do without your chastisements? Yes, yet you held your correcting stick with tender gloves. What would we do without our disciplinarian? Yes, your discipline was
enough to make sober, a drunken wayward child.
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CHICAGO :- Adjectives
seek companions when it comes to describing the life and times of Nana
Baffour Osei Akoto. He stands side-by-side in the history books with some
of the most prominent and influential people that the Gold Coast now Ghana
has ever produced. 
