As the journey home for the former Secretary-General, Kofi Annan begins, the founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor has humbly asked President Akufo-Addo to bury him at the Asomdwee park, where ex-president John Evans Atta-Mills was buried.
According to her, burying the Ghanaian diplomat at a private ceremony on Thursday at the Military Cemetery is not appropriate.
She explained that, the military men would hardly give the general public the opportunity to visit the tomb of Kofi Annan compared to Ghana’s first presidential mausoleum, the Asomdwee Park.
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“He should not be buried at the military cemetery. He should be taken to the Asomdwee park. He is not a soldier hence people can easily visit to watch him anytime. Soldiers would hardly give the general public the chance to see him…”
Mr. Annan’s body arrived in Ghana on Monday, draped in a UN Flag aboard a chartered flight from Geneva, Switzerland.
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The general public, heads of department, associations and other will file past the body on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, former ministers of state, members of the diplomatic corps, Members of Parliament, ministers of state, members of the Council of State, members of the Mfantsipim Old Boys Association, chiefs and queen mothers, the Akwamuhene and his delegation and Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s delegation will also past Mr Annan’s remains.
There will also be a private burial at midday on Thursday at the Military Cemetery with full military honours and a 17-gun salute.