Credit: Allafrica.Com.
Government has declared Friday August 10, the day the late President John Evans Atta Mills will be laid to rest a public holiday.
The President John Dramani Mahama made this declaration after signing an Executive Instrument to affirm the decision on Friday.
The late President will be laid to rest at a special place in between Castle Drive and Marine Drive in Accra. This was communicated the Chairman of the Funeral Planning Committee Kofi Totobi Quakyi Thursday after further consultations with the family members of the late president.
This decision however did not come easy as the place to rest the fallen head of state became a subject of controversy between government and the family of the late President.
The Family members had proposed that their son be buried in his home town in Otuam in the Central Region but government prevailed on them to allow the burial to be done in Accra.
Then the specific place in Accra where government intended to bury the late president also became a subject of controversy.
Who has not visited Africa will have difficulty to envision how the Africans celebrate a funeral. They are right of course, one may marry many times but one dies only ones.
You are right. They have strange traditons and customs. After seeing many funerals in Africa one wishes his last breath in that continent.