President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana’s longest-serving First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, will be given a “full” state burial.
Though a funeral date is yet to be announced, President Mahama said the widow of late President Jerry John Rawlings will be given an appropriate send-off.
He was speaking on Tuesday, October 28 when he visited the Ridge residence of the Rawlingses to commiserate with the family, especially the four children.
Mrs Rawlings died on Thursday, October 23 at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, popularly known as Ridge Hospital, after a short illness.
According to President Mahama, the children called to inform him about the incident immediately it happened.
He recounts how he had to tell them to come to the office after the phone call.
The President, who was a minister of state under the Rawlings government, said he last met the deceased at the funeral of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III.
“There was nothing that could warn us that a few weeks to come she herself will be gone,” President Mahama indicated.
He expressed condolences to the family, underscoring the unbreakable record of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings as Ghana’s First Lady of 19 years.