My Husband Didn’t Die of Food Poisoning- Joh kumah’s Widow
The wife of the late Member of Parliament for the Ejisu Constituency, Apostle Lilian Kumah has deflated allegations that her husband, Hon John Ampontuah Kumah, was poisoned to death.
The widow in an interview reacted to the speculations saying the Deputy Finance Minister battled and succumbed to a terminal blood disease.
According to her, he was diagnosed with the condition in a medical facility in Germany in August 2023.
“Right from day one since he was diagnosed in Germany, I have been part of the medical processes my husband went through, and no one, none of the doctors ever told me that my husband’s medical situation was because of poisoning.
“I have all the medical reports both from Germany and Ghana and food poisoning has never been mentioned in any of the reports,” she is quoted to have said by Assase Radio.
She is demanding disciplinary action against persons peddling the falsehood about her late husband’s death.
“Why is it that someone has been this bold to claim that he knows for a fact that a person like John Kumah who has serviced his country virtually all his life, was poisoned, while he was working for his country and party (New Patriotic Party, NPP), why should we sit down and not bring that person to book.
“If it is true that a person who is not dead but alive claims that he knows how my husband (John Kumah) died and that he was poisoned, and that person is still moving around for the past three weeks, it hurts me, it saddens me and I do not know how best to express my frustrations about these false claims by Captain Smart,” she reportedly said in the interview.
John Kumah died on Thursday, March 7, 2024, aged 45 years.
He was preparing to seek a second term in Parliament after going unopposed in his party’s primaries earlier this year.
About
John Kumah attended Opoku Ware School in Kumasi and furthered at the University of Ghana (Legon) in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Philosophy.
He also earned an MBA (Finance) from GIMPA, a Degree in Law (LLB) from the University of Ghana and a Professional Law Certificate (BL) from the Ghana School of Law.
In November 2020, John Kumah received a Doctorate in Business Innovation from the Swiss Business School in Switzerland and a Masters in Applied Research (Business Innovation) from the same institution.
He founded Majak Associates Ltd, a building and construction company, where he worked until he was appointed the CEO of NEIP in 2017.
He joined Parliament in 2021 after the 2020 general elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Until his demise, he was Vice Chairperson of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee and a member of the Appointments and Subsidiary Legislation Committee.
John was married to Apostle Mrs. Lilian Kumah who is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Disciple of Christ Ministries Worldwide.
He left behind six children and many other foster children.
