The final funeral rites for former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is underway at the Black Stars Square.
The ceremony is expected to have statesmen, government functionaries, politicians, chiefs and people from all walks of lives from across the country in attendance.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, who was Ghana’s First Lady from 1981 to 2001, died on Thursday, October 23 at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Ridge.
While serving as the husband of Ghana’s longest-serving Head of State, Mrs Rawlings founded the 31st December Women’s Movement to empower Ghanaian women.
She later contested then President Prof. John Evans Atta Mills in an unprecedented move that drew criticisms from the rank and file of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
This pushed her out of the party to found the National Democratic Party (NDP), the ticket on which she contested the 2016 elections as the first female Presidential Candidate.
She is expected to be buried at the New Military Cemetery, where her late husband, Jerry John Rawlings, was buried.