Mother angry over untimely death of daughter after taking part in Mentor I

A member of the first episode of Mentor (Mentor 1), a TV3 reality show, Okuraseni Samuel, has bashed organisers of the show for failing to recognise the untimely death of another member of the show, Doris Afia Serwaa Amaneampong (Doris).

He said during the launch of the seventh edition of the show, organisers failed to acknowledge that the death of Doris.

He said the organisers have been informed of her death, but they brushed it aside and made no news of it.

Speaking on Rainbow Radio’s GH-Entertainment Show, hosted by Agyemang Prempeh (Agyeman Nie, Rainbow Nie) in Accra, the mother of the deceased, Maame Konadu said her daughter, Doris Afia Serwaa Amaneampong, left home some time ago to take part in the Mentor reality show and did not return at a time she was expected.

Maame Konadu said she only got to speak to her daughter once and Doris told her that she had been told that if she made an attempt to return to her home town, she would die in an accident.

Maame Konadu said because she was weary due to old age, she could not keep up traveling from her home town, Bosomprah in the Ashanti Region to Accra in search of her daughter.

She said she travelled to Accra when she heard that Doris was appearing on the TV3 Mentor show.  

In Accra, she said she was able to meet Doris at her (Maame Konadu’s) cousin, one Wiafe’s house.

Maame Konadu said she asked that Doris returned with her to Kumasi so she could be closer to her, but according to her, Doris insisted on finishing an album she was recording.

Maame Konadu returned to Wiafe’s house in Accra two months later, when she heard that Wiafe had given her daughter to a pastor for marriage but she still did not see her daughter.

Maame Konadu said after a while, Doris came to her with a gentle man who she introduced as a man she would want to marry.

They had come to ask Doris’ family requirement for performing customary rites for marriage.

Later, the man came to perform the traditional marriage rites and got married to Doris.

Soon after the marriage, Maame Konadu said, she received a call to come to Accra but when she came, she never saw her daughter.

She said she stayed for over two weeks but Doris never allowed her to know where she and her husband lived.

Shortly after her return to her hometown in the Ashanti Region, she heard that Doris was pregnant and later gave birth.

There again, she returned to Accra hoping to see her daughter, but to no avail.

Shortly after she returned, she heard that Doris had passed on, but Maame Konadu, said she couldn’t believe so she inquired from a relative in Accra and found that it was true.

Doris has been buried prior to final funeral rites scheduled for Saturday June 15.  

Her children were with their paternal grandmother and are expected to be given to Maame Konadu.

Maame Konadu said she had not been contacted by any person from the organisers of the Mentor TV show concerning the death of her daughter.

Listen to the full interview attached.

Story: Osei Bonsu Appiah-Gyasi [Rainbow Radio]