Robert Mensah’s Body To Be Exhumed

Thirty-three years after his death, the body of the late Robert Mensah, the ace goal-keeper of Cape Coast Mysterious Dwarfs, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and the Senior National Team, the Black Stars, is to be exhumed from the Asokyeano Cemetery and reburied at the Victoria Park, Cape Coast.

The late Mensah’s statue will also be erected at the new burial place as a show of appreciation to his invaluable contributions to the game of football. The Cape Coast Municipal Chief Executive, Muniru Arafat Nuhu announced this when he addressed the playing body of the Cape Coast Mysterious Dwarfs at their training camp at Ankaful, near Cape Coast at the weekend.

He explained that the Victoria Park has been chosen for the reburial because it was the first park where competitive football was played in the then Gold Coast over 100 years ago.

The late Robert Mensah was an outstanding goal keeper in the late sixties and early seventies. He was stabbed to death by a friend in an argument at Tema in 1971.