Highlife musician, Akosua Agyapong, has blamed Achimota hospital for the death of the renowned highlife legend Nana Ampadu.
According to her, when the sick musician arrived at the hospital’s premises on Tuesday morning, they were told the doctor was sleeping so he had to be rushed to the University of Ghana Medical Centre at Legon – where doctors did their best but he, unfortunately, gave up the ghost.
In an interview with the media, Akosua Agaypong said: “The ambulance didn’t get here early. We went to the Achimota hospital and we were informed that the doctor had slept. So when he was taken to the new hospital at Legon, the doctors tried all they could but he couldn’t survive’’.
Nana Ampadu, who has contributed to the highlife industry died this morning Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at the Legon Hospital in Accra.
With over 800 songs to his credit, he is a household name when it comes to the highlife genre in Africa.
For more than four decades, Nana Ampadu churned out some of the most famous highlife songs. Some of them are ‘Obra’, ‘Oman Bo Adwo’, ‘Kukrukukru’ and ‘Agatha’ are popular today.
The music legend, after several decades of great successes in music, has hung up his music boots. He is now winning souls for Christ.
“Lately, I’m doing the work of God as an Evangelist. I have a church where I worship but I go around in many churches… I have been receiving invitations and I go and share the word of God with them,” Nana Ampadu disclosed.
Now called Evangelist Nana Kwame Ampadu, the music great revealed that he started preaching in 1994 but was called to God’s ministry in 1998.
To him, doing God’s work has “given me respect among people that I meet” and “no job is better than the working of God. I just love it. I love preaching.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Solomon Nartey
