Mr Herbert Mensah, President of Ghana Rugby has made an emotional eulogy of his late friend and Journalist Komla Afeke Dumor who died on 18 January 2014.
The Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa died exactly 10 years ago today and Herbert Mensah who the late Komla Dumor’s role model has remembered him and urged all Ghanaians to emulate him.
In an emotional message Herbert Mensah talked of how good a leader he was and his love for humanity. According to him he was a true servant of Africa who wanted positive changes for the continent.
“We will all, year in year out, going into the future, remember Komla and never forget him. And I ask you to do the same. He is the Ghanaian that marks excellence. He has laid down a mark which allows Ghanaians respect at tables the World over. He is is known and respected from Cape Town to Cairo, from Dakar to Eritrea, all the corners of the earth and many people who believed that the BBC is a tad staid and boring would tune in because they knew they had the greatest presenter on all channels.”
“And if he came into my home, anywhere in the world, the first thing he’d do is that he would go and talk to the least advantaged. If he came to my office, he wanted to know which staff member was hardest up, and you’d see him talking to him. He had qualities of humanity and leadership which today, if he was around, no doubt he would be involved in politics at a very high level. Ghana needs a Komla Dumor. Africa needs a Komla Dumor. And there must be many, many out there. And if you can emulate 10% of what this great man was, then it is that you will know that you are on the right path.” An excerpt of Herbert Mensah’s eulogy describes the late Komla Dumor as a great man for Ghana and Africa at large.
