Management of Ghana’s media giant, The Multimedia Group Limited, will hold a memorial service on Monday, November 20, for their departed presenter, Kwadwo Asare Baffuor Acheampong (KABA).
The service is scheduled to take place at 6 am at the Forecourt of Multimedia’s Radio building, which houses Joy FM, Adom FM, Asempa FM and Hitz FM.
Staff, as well as loved ones of the late talented broadcaster, are expected to be seated by 5.30 am and the dress code is black.
KABA, as the presenter was commonly known, was the host of popular afternoon political talk show on Asempa FM, Ekosii Sen.
News of KABA’s sudden death early Saturday at the Kole Bu Teaching Hospital sent shockwaves throughout the country as his listeners who cut across the society, home and abroad, posted messages on various social media platforms to condole with the family.
About KABA
KABA joined Asempa FM in 2008 as a service provider and became full time in August 2009. Prior to joining the Multimedia Group, KABA had worked with Top Radio from 2004 – 2008.
The broadcaster was a trained teacher at the University of Cape Coast after which he moved to the Ghana Institute of Journalism for Communications Studies.
He later enrolled at the University of Ghana to study Political Science. KABA had also hosted Adom TV’s Morning Show on Multi TV.
The ace broadcaster, was among a group of selected senior journalists, who joined the President at the Flagstaff House this year, to ask him questions about critical national issues.
He married Valentina Ofori Afriyie [in June 2016], a staff of Accra-based Class FM, who had moved from Radio Gold.
He left behind his wife and a daughter.