Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the late former President Jerry John Rawlings will be accorded a Commander-in-Chief status at his burial service on Wednesday, January 27.
The Ghana Armed Forces would therefore fire a 21-gun salute and offer other military courtesies to him.
Addressing the media in Accra on Monday, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said the family of the former president had requested that no recording gadgets should be allowed at the Lobby of the Accra International Conference Centre(AICC), where the former President s mortal remains laid-in-state.
He urged the media to respect the wishes of the family of the former president to avert any unnecessary heckling or confrontation with the security detail tasked to maintain law and order at the place.
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The people of Anlo have petitioned Torgbui Agbesi Awusu II, the Awadada of Anlo to demand that the body of former President Jerry John Rawlings be brought home for burial.
They said the longest-serving President and properly installed Chief of Anlo consciously remained and died an Anlo and must be buried according to Anlo customs, which meant that his body must be conveyed to and buried in his ancestral home.
A petition jointly authored by the three wings of the Anlo State, their military groups and the Anlo citizenry and presented by Regent Torgbui Tamakloe, said the people of Anlo and the entire Ewe stock acknowledged the need for the State to honour their celebrated son, but it must not be done contrary to their (Anlos’) traditional and customary practices.
The funeral of former President Jerry John Rawlings will commence on January 24, 2020
All is set for the final funeral rites of former President Jerry John Rawlings, who passed away on Thursday, November 12, 2020. The funeral will commence 24th January 2020 with the main funeral event taking place on Wednesday, January 27, at the Independence Square, Accra, from 9am to 11am.
The former President died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
The national activities will start with a Catholic Requiem Mass on Sunday, January 24 at the Holy Spirit Cathedral and a vigil at the Air Force Officers Mess in Accra.
The former President will be laid in state on Monday, January 25 and Tuesday, January 26 at the Accra International Conference Centre for various interest groups and members of the public to have an opportunity to pay their last respects.
A Requiem Mass is being held for former President Jerry John Rawlings at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Accra.
The Mass offered for the repose of the soul of a deceased person will be between 2 pm and 4 pm today.
It is the first event on a four-day funeral schedule.
Watch a live stream of the Mass below;
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