The mortal remains of the late Madam Eva Lokko was today, November 18, laid in state in a well-attended ceremony at the State House in Accra.
A very sad spectacle unfolded when Madam Lokko's husband, Nii K. Bentsi-Enchill took his turn to read a tribute to his wife.
Midway through the tribute, Mr Bentsi-Enchill was so overtaken by grief that he could not continue reading anymore and it had to be completed by their daughter.
The ceremony had politicians from across the political divide attending including Dr Zanetor Rawlings of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and Philip Addison of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who would have both been Madam Lokko's opponents for the Klottey Korle parliamentary seat had she not passed away.
Progressive People's Party (PPP) Presidential Candidate Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom who named the late Madam Lokko as his running for the 2012 presidential elections expressed his sorrow saying, her death was a big loss to the PPP and Ghana as a whole.
The late Eva Naa Merley Lokko was an engineer by profession and in 1972 became the first woman engineer to be employed by the Ghana Broadcasting Coporation (GBC) where she, later on, became the first female Director-General in 2002.
She left behind Mr Bentsi-Enchill and two children.