Awutu-Mankessim (C/R), March 21, GNA - The death has been reported at Awutu Mankessim in the Central Region of Reverend Thomas Kweku Essandoh, Chaplain of the Ankobia Division of the Awutu Traditional Area. He was 78 and survived by a wife, eight children and several grandchildren.

He was a Senior Pastor of the Akim-Akroso based Christ Faith Apostolic Church and brother of Nai Kwao Otuo V, Ankobiahene of the Awutu Traditional Area.

Nai Otuo told the press after an emergency funeral planning committee meeting at Awutu Mankessim on Sunday that final funeral rites of Rev. Essandoh would come off at Awutu Mankessim on April 22, this year.