VIDEO: Ghana must honour Kofi Annan with a statue – Akua Donkor

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Founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor has urged the  government honour Kofi Annan with a statue.

She explained that, as a global icon, such sculpture will bring a lot of tourists in the country and also put Ghana on the world map.

She made this statement at the Accra International Conference Centre, where Ghanaians are filing past the mortal remains of Kofi Atta Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN).

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“I knew Kofi Anna very well. I met him several times when I was an assembly woman working with ex-President Kufuor. He was an honest man and deserves to be honoured. A statue must be put up to commemorate him…” she said to Adomonline.com.

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.