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K Ojo Bentsi-Enchill DESIGN & PRINT. TYPE COMPANY LTD. TEL: +233. 30 223. 2252 | 057 .767. 1011 gratitude for your kind prayers, thoughtfulness, sympathy sympathy thoughtfulness, kindprayers, your for gratitude The family of Kojo Bentsi-Enchill wishes to express deep express wishes to Bentsi-Enchill ofKojo family The and generous support in our time of bereavement. supportinourtimeofbereavement. and generous May God bless and reward you all. you andreward Godbless May Appreciation Scan toPay Dial *246*5# Kojo B-EDonations Mobile Money 663042985 MERCHANT ID Kojo Bentsi-Enchill Kojo 3 April 1950 - 13 February 2021 February 13 - 1950 April 3 ORDER OFSERVICE 11. Prayer for Family PART ONE - 08:00 AM 12. Hallelujah Chorus- Qodesh Hymns Choir 1. Opening Prayer, Welcome, Filing Past 13. Closing Prayer & Benediction 2. Tributes (1st Set) 14. Recession- Dead March in Saul (Ace Ankomah) 3. Filing past continues 4. Tributes (2nd Set) 5. Moot Court PART THREE – PRIVATE BURIAL 6. Final congregational filing past, Clergy, Family 1. Opening Prayer 7. Closing of Casket 2. Hymn- Lead Kindly Light 3. Scripture Reading - 1st Corinthians 15:51 – 58 4. Hymn - When Peace Like A River PART TWO – 10:00 AM 5. Committal 1. Opening prayer 6. Prayer 2. Hymn - Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me (MHB 498) 7. Song - Because He Lives 3. First Scripture Reading - Revelation 14:12 – 13 8. Presentation of Wreaths 4. Second Scripture Reading- 1st Thessalonians 4:13 – 18 9. Vote of Thanks BENTSI-ENCHILL 5. Hymn - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (MHB 182) 10. Song - Soon and Very Soon 6. Biography KOJO 11. Closing Prayer 7. Special song - Ekow & Baaba 12. The Grace 3 8. Tributes - Children, Wife, Siblings, BELA, UD-OLGC 9. Offertory - Song by Qodesh Hymns Choir 10. Sermon 4 BENTSI-ENCHILL KOJO KOJO BIOGRAPHY OF Kojo Bentsi-Enchill ojo Bentsi-Enchill was born At Legon, Kojo graduated in political on 3 April 1950 in Accra to science and in law before qualifying KWilhelmina (née Coleman) for the Bar. At Magdalene College, and Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill. He Cambridge, he did postgraduate Precious in the was the second of five siblings. research on Gold Coast and Ghana sight of the Lord He entered Achimota School early mining concessions law and was is the death of before going to William H. Ray awarded a J. Donaldson Bye- Elementary School in Chicago Fellowship. Kojo then worked as his saints. BENTSI-ENCHILL Psalm 116:15 ESV (United States), Leighton Park an Assistant Program Officer in School (England), the University International Human Rights at the KOJO of Ghana, Legon, and Cambridge Ford Foundation in New York. He 5 University (England). joined the global law firm Shearman & Sterling, also in New York, as a Foreign Associate working on international liquefied natural gas arbitration, and then bank finance. Kojo returned to Ghana in the late 1980s and set up ABSC (Accra Business Services Centre), a pioneering provider of desktop publishing and office services. In 1990, he set up the law firm Bentsi-Enchill & Letsa with his Legon friend, debating partner and hallmate, Divine Kwaku Letsa. Until 2010, Kojo was Managing Partner and head of the Corporate Department. Over this period, the firm became Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Mate (BELM) and then Bentsi- Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah (BELA). BENTSI-ENCHILL Kojo stepped down in 2010 from Managing Partner to a Senior KOJO KOJO 6 Partner position and until 2018, led the firm’s Energy & Natural all of Ghana’s published legal and partnerships. In 2020, the Resources Practice Group. materials. These included laws, International Financial Law Review From 2019, he led the Energy & statutes, law journal articles, law named BELA the Ghana Law Firm Infrastructure Practice Group until reports and regulatory notices. of the Year and gave Kojo a Lifetime his retirement in 2020, after which Kojo’s aim was to “make law more Achievement Award. he served as a Consultant to the accessible than ever before.” firm. Kojo served on several boards and As business and staff numbers professional bodies including the BELA moved from its original grew, Kojo visualized BELA having Ghana Bar Association and the premises on Oxford Street, Osu, its own building and mobilized Examinations Board of the General to occupy first one wing, then his partners and associates Legal Council. Among two dozen another wing on different floors around a 10-year plan to finance of the Teachers’ Hall Complex in and construct it. On BELA’s Adabraka. It shared the premises 25th anniversary in 2015, the with Trustee Services Limited modestly sizeable building was If we live, we live for (TSL) and DataCenta, two more commissioned by Ghana’s then the Lord, and if we die, of Kojo’s visionary and successful Chief Justice, Theodora Wood. ventures. While TSL offered a full By then, BELA was a leader in we die for the Lord. range of company secretarial and commercial and corporate law and Therefore, whether we compliance services, DataCenta set remains unquestionably one of live or die, we belong out to “provide a quantum boost to the very best law firms in Ghana. to God. BENTSI-ENCHILL the development of Ghana’s legal It is a member of prestigious information culture” by digitizing international legal associations Romans 14:8 KOJO 7 publications, public lectures and annual debates between halls and seminar papers, his last paper was between Legon and the University ‘The Regulation of Law Practice in of Ibadan. Kojo was an active Ghana, 1853-2018’. It is a chapter member of the church now known in Mobilising the Law for Ghana’s as the United Denominations- Future – Appraising to Revolutionise, Originating from the Lighthouse published last year by the Group of Churches (UD-OLGC), University of Ghana School of Law regularly playing the piano for the to mark its 60th anniversary. Kojo hymns choir. Besides the piano, his continued working throughout abiding hobby was chess. Kojo was 2020 to expand this chapter into a quiet philanthropist – among a book. other good works, he helped set up school music programmes Kojo always had a broad range of and donated music books and interests. In the early 1970s, he instruments. He also provided free worked with Wole Soyinka when and discreet legal advice and other the literary Transition magazine support to extended family and was based in Accra. He was a fine friends. photographer and outstanding in different sports, including tennis. Kojo says farewell to his beloved He once played Junior Wimbledon, children Kwamena, Baaba and BENTSI-ENCHILL and later trained for a period Ekow and his beloved wife Mercy, KOJO KOJO with Ghana’s national team. He who looked after him in health 8 led the Mensah Sarbah team for and in sickness with surpassing love and devotion. May he rest in perfect peace. BENTSI-ENCHILL KOJO KOJO 9 TO NANA BENTSI, BY WIFE MY LOVE MERCY BENTSI -ENCHILL When life seems a blur, I can’t say that it’s true, And I can’t quite believe But life does go on, That I’m living without you Which means without you. And you were taken from me, When it all gets too much I sit back and think And I wish you were here, Of the memories we shared, I feel thankful that I met you, All the laughs that you gave me And I hold you close, my dear. And the times that you cared. ‘Til death do us part. ‘Til death do us part. That’s true in our case. That’s true in our case. I miss you so much, BENTSI-ENCHILL I miss you so much, Your voice and your face. KOJO KOJO Your voice and your face. Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems. 10 Time is a healer. com/poem/til-death-do-us-part-2 I sit back and think Of the memories we shared, All the laughs that you gave me And the times that you cared. BENTSI-ENCHILL KOJO KOJO 11 MY SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND COURAGE IN MY LIFE KWAMENA BOSOMTWE BENTSI-ENCHILL - SON y Dad has always been a source of strength and Mcourage in my life. He has steered and helped me through the more volatile periods of my health. He was always calm in the face of panic. “Let cooler heads prevail” pretty much sums up his temperament. My most treasured memories of our time spent BENTSI-ENCHILL together usually have no dialogue, KOJO KOJO funnily enough. Spontaneously saying, 12 ”Hey man! let’s go for a drive!” up and down the rough Teshie-Nungua could swear he was on his tiptoes road while listening to the second at the beginning of the stroke. Mary Mary album – I could hit high notes back then which led to me Hearing turbulence in the water Dad was a generous being the sole male soprano in the J behind me in the pool signaled Church Choir (much to my chagrin); that the other KBE had initialized and kind person. spending half the night in his his furious crawl aimed right at He always wanted study in Popscot just listening to me, so I’d better move it or lose it. to encourage and classical music or the free sample He was also a very patient person. CDs from the Jazziz subscription Even when being a disciplinarian, motivate people to he had; the time he made me turn it wasn’t in his nature to do it for succeed or better up “Changes” by Tupac while I was its own sake. He would make you themselves. listening; the moment I realized understand fully what you had he was humming the melody of done irresponsibly and give you “Do For You” by Tupac almost the motivation to do better next every weekend because it was time.
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