[ 2017-01-16 ]

President Akufo-Addo joined other dignitaries to pay his last respect to the late queen mother

Nana Addo, Kufuor, Kofi Annan pay respects to Asantehemaa
President Nana Akufo-Addo today [Monday], joined
the long list of dignitaries that travelled to
Manhyia palace in the Ashanti Region, to pay
respects to the late queen mother of the Asante
Kingdom, Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem
II.

Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II is
lying in state at the Manhyia Palace, where
mourners will be filing past her body until
Thursday, when she would finally be buried.

Joining the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, son
of the Asantehemaa to mourn, have been former UN
Secretary General, Kofi Annan; former President of
Ghana, John Kufuor, and the British High
Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin among others.

Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, who
died at the age of 111 in November 2016, will be
buried in Breman on Thursday.

As part of the arrangements for the burial of the
Queen-mother, no one is to be seen on the streets
from Bantama to Breman from 6:00 pm of Thursday,
January 19, to 3:00am of Friday 20th January.

Source - citifmonline.com

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