Ebun Olowu
The burial of the 73-year-old Ghana’s former President, Jerry John Rawlings, will be held on December 23 2020, at the Independence Square in Accra
The head of the funeral planning committee, James Gbeho, made this known in a press release on Monday, November 30, 2020. According to him, the family, in consultation with government, agreed on the date.
Gbeho said, “The family is working in conjunction with government on the finer details of the funeral ceremony and will communicate the arrangements in due course.”
Rawlings, Ghana’s longest-serving head of state and founder of the National Democratic Congress, died on November 12 2020 at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after a brief illness.
