Members of Parliament (MPs) from both sides of the House on Saturday July 31, 2021 joined their colleague Member for the Afram Plains North constituency, Betty Nana Afua Krosbi Mensah, her family and the people of Afram Plains to mourn their departed mother, Mrs Grace Krosbi Mensah, popularly called “Auntie Grace”.
MPs represented at the funeral include Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, Deputy Minority Leader James Klutse Avedzi, First Deputy Majority Whip, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, First Deputy Minority Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim and Second Deputy Minority Whip, Comfort Doyoe Ghansah.
The rest are Helen Adjoa Ntoso, Mohammed Adams Sukparu, Kofi Adams, Nelson Rockson Dafeamekpor, Sulemana Yusif, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Derry Chiwetey, Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare, Joseph Appiah, Sophia Karen Akuaku, and Joycelyn Tetteh.
Others are Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, Eric Aful, Henry Boakye Yoadom, Roosevelt Hotordzie, Benjamin Ayiku Narteh, Davis Opoku Ansah (OPK), Geoffrey Kpini, Dorcas Toffey, and Okletey Tei-Larbi, among others.
Clerk-at-Table, Rev Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror was also part of the Parliamentary delegation.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), was represented by its National Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Deputy General Secretary, Peter Boamah Otokunor, Eastern Regional Executives as well as constituency Executives of the NDC in the Afram Plains North.
Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Jeff Konadu and the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Afram Plains North, George Ofori led a delegation of members of the that party to the funeral.
Mrs Grace Krosbi Mensah mother of the Afram Plains North MP died recently at age 64.
Well wishers from all walks of life attended the funeral.
The Burial Mass was officiated by the Bishop of the Catholic Vicariate of Donkor krom, Most Rev John Alphose Asiedu at the St Francis Xavier Catholic Church.
By Christian Kpesese