Members of Asiedu Nketia family in his hometown of Seikwa and other nearby communities were summoned to the family house to continue the mourning which had already started for the small member of the family.
A coffin was brought in and after all necessary rites were performed, the time came for the family to lower the body of one of the young family members into an awaiting coffin.
In a tearful and sorrowful mood, they all bid farewell to him and were set to dispatch him with various messages to the ancestors.
And when all hopes seemed lost, the surprise came that the young man woke up from the bed to the amazement of all gathered.
Several years after, the young man who was once declared dead and was on his way to the grave is now the pride of the family.
He is the most successful General Secretary of a political party in the country’s 4th republic and all his colleagues salute at the mention of the name General Mosquito.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia made this and other interesting revelations in an interview with Cine Plus when he spoke on his life and political career.
According to the one-time Member of Parliament (MP), members of the family believed that he was dead because he was almost always sick as a young boy.
“According to my mother, I even died and they brought in a coffin to come and bury me…,” he said.
Asiedu Nketia who said he is the smallest of all his mother’s children said, he was almost sacked from Training College for being smallish.
“When the Senior House Master met on Campus, he asked whose trunk I carried to the college, he then ordered me to go home because it was late and that St Joseph was meant for men and not for boys…,” he said.
All these he said happened at a time when he had gone to push trucks, saved money to enroll in the training college.
General Mosquito claimed he never had the dream to be a politician.
Source: adomonline
