Tribute To The Late Dr Benjamin Nii Darkufio Dodoo
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40 1:5
We do not always have an opportunity to celebrate a man before he departs this earth because we always take things for granted. It is painful sometimes in this age of instant communication when you are told of the passing away of an internet colleague who happened to be both foe and friend in the cut and thrust of discussions and debates on the Gadangme Internet Forum; you are not only shocked but also numbed by the news.
I saw him on the previous Friday at the funeral of the husband of a niece. I saw him at the wake and again at the reception on Saturday. I haven't even had the chance to hand over the $100.00 he donated to our organisation Ga Dangme Nikasemo Asafo in recognition of the continued good work that we do in the name of Gadangme. I thanked him for his generosity to the cause of GaDangme. To say that I am stunned is an understatement and therefore I cannot be as coherent as I could be save to write this tribute to a man who became dedicated to the Gadangme cause and who defended to the core all things Gadangme and refused to give any quarter in his projection of his tribe.