Losing a parent is one of the most difficult emotional trauma one can experience.

That is the story of renowned politician, Kwabena Agyei Agyepong who lost his father under very tragic circumstances. He got traumatised when he received news of his father’s death.

According to him, his father, Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong was his “closest friend,” therefore, “having him [dad] snatched away from us, was traumatic.”

In a yet-to-be-aired PM: Express Personality Profile, the former General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) said “Everything that I think I know, every principle that I operate on, I believe my father bequeathed to me.”

Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong was one of three prominent judges who were abducted and subsequently murdered in 1982, during the administration of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

Recounting the last moments with his dad, Mr. Agyepong said he was having dinner with his father when someone summoned him (father) outside.

Unbeknownst to the lad, that would be the last time he will see his father alive.

“If you get a call from outside that a colleague of yours, and the story was that Justice Koranteng who we use to be very close to, needed some help. And he went out and that was it,” he told JoyNews’ Ayisha Ibrahim.

According to the Civil Engineer, the family didn’t know anything had happened that night until their next-door neighbour came to look for the late Justice Agyepong.

“When they came looking for my dad, I went upstairs and I realised he wasn’t in the room. I called my mum and she said, ‘but you were eating with your dad last night’. That is when we realised that it was serious.

“The judges used to stay in the same area so I rushed off to Justice Adusei’s house to inform him what had happened. And he told us that he got a call last night from the then Chief Justice that some three judges have been abducted. And of course, the following three days were the most horrible days of my life because we didn’t know what had happened to them, there was chaos in the country at the time.”

However, being a soccer enthusiast, he left home to watch a match at the Accra Sports Stadium and upon his return, he was told “our father’s body had been found.”

“That was really terrible. So I went with my friend B.B, to Dzorwulu to spend the night and it was at dawn on BBC, that I heard the news again. It was very descriptive and very difficult for me to imbibe at the time.

“The morning after that, was very difficult,” he said.

Following the death of his father, the politician said the trajectory of his life changed.

“We were given three months to leave the Ridge residence. And really, that was very tough. From living in the bungalow, I didn’t have any place to live. And my mum had my younger siblings who she had to take care of.

“She had to go and perch with a friend at North Kaneshie. Then, I was 20 years so I had to find my way so I went to perch with a friend who was also an Mfantsepim Boy.”

Although it was a drastic transistion for the 20-year-old, he noted that “my father had trained me to be very tough” so he survived.

Tune in to JoyNews tonight at 9:00pm for the full story on Kwabena Agyepong.