The business community has been paying glowing tribute to the First Vice President of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry who passed away on July 25, 2015.

Dr Prosper Adabla died on Saturday after a new office complex he was putting up at Cantonments in Accra collapsed on him and 21 others. Two others died in the accident.

Chief Executive Officer of the Private Enterprises Federation, Nana Osei Bonsu says Dr Adabla’s contribution to the industry cannot be quantified.

He was “a stalwart, independent, spoke his mind, called things the way he saw them. He never clouded his statement or position regardless of the audience. He was fiercely independent and will say it just the way he saw it.

“His general contribution and counsel as to what the private sector stands for and government stands for will be missed”, he said.

Chief Executive of Reroy Cables, Kate Quartey-Papafio, said the business community will miss him.

She said, “he contributed a lot of ideas on how to run the chamber and the passion with which he got things done will be missed a lot.”

Dr. Prosper Adabla was an industrialist, a financial consultant and a businessman.

He worked at Wall Street for 15 years, serving as a Director for Continental Insurance Company, Vice President for American International Group, Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Apart from being the first vice president of the chamber of commerce, Dr. Adabla was also a member of the governing council of the private enterprise federation. 

He was also the first African board member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce in the US.

Dr Adabla served on several other boards and was the founder and CEO of New Capital Holdings, a holding company with a number of subsidiaries in the areas of finance, import and export.