For 9 year old Theresa Badu and her 7 year old sister, Nana Asante Baotemaa, the hope of a joyful Christmas as celebrated by other children was over even before the year started. Their father, James Perkins, who was the NPP's Youth Organiser for the Asante Akim South Constituency painfully died in a motor accident on his return from a party meeting in Kumasi.