Former PNDC Regional Secretary laid to rest

Burial took place on Saturday at Half-Assini Roman Catholic Cementary in Western Region of Mr John Ransford Erchueh (J. R. E) Amenlemah, former Western Regional Secretary.

He was 85 and was survived with a wife and eight children.

Late Amenlemah was born at Half-Assini in 1930 to the family of Mr Joseph Ndah Miezah Amenlemah and Mrs Elizabeth Afibah Amenlemah, both now of blessed memory.

The former Regional Secretary completed his basic education in 1946 at Beyin, attended Saint Theresa's Minor Seminary but never realised his priesthood ambition and eventually became a social worker teaching Mass Education.

He pursued his academic endeavours in 1962 and obtained four university level qualifications at University of Ghana and United Kingdom University of Reading with first degree in Philosophy and MA in Development Studies with specialization in Community Development.

Social work was his adult career and therefore spent most of his life with the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development.

He rose through the various echelons of the department; a work which took him to remote parts of every region in the country.

Mr Amenlemah authored life-transforming works on community development and adult education which served as the basis for consultancy projects he carried out in the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

In 1988 and 1992, late Amenlemah served as Western Regional Secretary under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) regime.

He died on December 3, 2015.