I Often Visit The Tombs Of My Son, Komla Dumor And My late Wife Behind My window – Prof Ernest Dumor Reveals

Prof Ernest Kwaku Dumor, father of the late popular Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News, Komla Afeke Dumor, has detailed how he constantly mourns his late wife and son, years after their demise.

It will be recalled that the renowned journalist who was the main presenter of BBC’s Focus on Africa, died from  a heart attack on January 18, 2014, at his home in Rickmansworth, United Kingdom, having been on air the day before. His mother, Cecilia Joana Kokui Dumor  who was the late wife of Prof Kwaku Dumor died 5 years before her son did.

Asked how he has handled the death of his iconic son, Prof, who is  the founding Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), noted that he could not express the feeling of losing his son. He asserted that although he does not shed tears to grieve Komla, ”The crying still goes on.”

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Prof,  in an interview with Lexis Bills on Personality Profile  disclosed that he visits the tombs of his beloved wife and son often to mourn them. According to him, the pictures of his late wife and son are hung in every suitable spot in his room.

 He stated that, “They are in the same place behind my window, so I go there and say a little prayer and commit them into the bosom of the Lord and ask them to intercede for those of us who are still alive, so that the memory will still continue. I have pictures of them staring at me everywhere.”