Amenfi West MP Dies

John Gyetuah
Information reaching DAILY GUIDE as at press time yesterday indicated that the Member of Parliament (MP) for Amenfi West in the Western Region, John Gyetuah, had passed on.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP was 56.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that he died yesterday morning after battling with an ailment for some months now.

Initial reports were that Mr Gyetuah died at a hospital in the constituency.

However, DAILY GUIDE later gathered that he passed on to glory at his residence. The wife of the late MP, Veronica Gyetuah, told Adom Fm that the MP was found unconscious in the morning when the family went to call him for breakfast.

'We had finished serving and we went to call him to come for food…that was when we realised he had fallen unconscious so we rushed him to the hospital…and he was confirmed dead…,' the wife said while weeping on Adom Fm.

She continued that Mr Gyetuah was encouraged to sleep for a while when his driver, whom he (Gyetuah) was set to go for a walk with in the morning, discovered that he (MP) didn't look healthy.

Mr Gyetuah entered Parliament in 2004 and was a minister of state during President John Atta Mills' tenure as president.

The Amenfi West MP was in 2008 involved in a fatal accident near Tarkwa in the Western Region that claimed the life of his driver.

He has been unwell for some time now and looked very frail anytime he attended parliamentary proceedings.

Despite his ill health, he filed his nomination to contest the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the NDC.

He was seeking re-election to represent his people in Parliament and was among those vetted by the party recently.

Mr Gyetuah, a teacher by profession, left behind seven children and a wife.

He was a member of the Committees on Members Holding Offices of Profit and Roads and Transport.

He held a BA (Sociology) from the University of Cape Coast and EMGL from GIMPA.

From Thomas Fosu, Jnr &Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi