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The Mother of Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong, aka KABA, Mrs Felicia Amoah Obeng, also known as Akosua Asabea, has sorrowfully shared the sad story of how her dear son, a celebrated radio presenter, joined his Maker.

The sudden death of the ace broadcaster with the Multimedia group shocked the nation, with lots of media outlets proffering various accounts leading to his eternal calling.

Sharing how KABA passed on, Akosua Asabea said she was at an all-night church service on Friday when she received a call from KABA at midnight that he was not feeling well and needed her to pick him to the hospital.

The mother said she quickly headed to her son’s home to pick him to the hospital.

“He lay on my laps in a vehicle on our way to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital; upon reaching there, they did their best but life cannot wrest from death anything that it gets hold of.

“He couldn’t even open his mouth to talk to me before his untimely death. I know our God is good and He will speak for everything to remain calm. I need all your prayers for Kwadwo that the Lord should receive him into His bosom and strengthen me because I am currently in a critical situation,” Mrs Obeng stated amidst tears.

Speaking exclusively to the DAILY HERITAGE yesterday, she said KABA was not sick and noted that “he calls me every morning for us to pray, but last Thursday morning I didn’t receive his call so I called him many times but couldn’t get through to him. I, therefore, called the wife’s number and she gave her phone to him.

“I asked Kwadwo ‘why is it that you know we have a contract of praying before you go to work every morning but I haven’t heard from you’. He replied, ‘Akosua, I am not well’ and I asked him, ‘What is wrong with you?’. KABA said, ‘I feel weak and I think it’s malaria’, so I asked him whether he had been to the hospital to which he said he was preparing to go.”

Mrs Asabea added that around 11:30 a.m. that same day, “I called him again and he informed me he had returned from the hospital and that he was about to take his medicine so he could sleep.

“I waited till 1:30 p.m. when I called and he told me he was okay and preparing to go to work so I asked again, ‘Are you sure you are well?’ and he said, ‘Oh, I can go’ so I prayed with him and he left for work.”

The mother said in the evening, around 8:00p.m., “I called again and he told me he was okay so I said, ‘Jesus be with you’. On Friday morning too, I called and he told me he was well so I told him if he could not go to work, he should rest but he told me he could go.”

She told the paper that “I made my mind to go to an all night church service in the evening and inquired from him if he could go with me, but he told me he was tired and wanted to sleep. Later, he called me around midnight that he was not feeling well and I asked whether he had taken his medicine; he answered in the affirmative. I later went to his house to pick him up to the hospital but he passed on.”

Memory

The mother said she would always remember KABA because he was slow to anger, kind, compassionate, lovely and above all respected everybody.

“I don’t have anything to say; I look forward to the Lord because Kwadwo is an ardent Christian,” she stated.

KABA, until his sudden call to eternity, was the host of the popular late afternoon political talk show, ‘Ekosii Sen’ on Asempa 94.7 FM.

Unconfirmed reports have it that the celebrated broadcaster died on his way to the hospital following a sudden increase in his sugar and blood pressure levels on the dawn of Saturday, November 18, 2017.

He was married to Valentina Ofori Afriyie, who is also a broadcaster with Accra-based Class FM, having worked many years with Radio Gold in Accra and Spirit FM in Kumasi. He was survived by his parents, wife, and daughter.