Hundreds pay last respect to late Dormaa Queenmother

Dormaa-Ahenkro (Brong Ahafo) 24 May ?99

People from all walks of life thronged the Abanprediase Palace at Dormaa-Ahenkro yesterday to pay their last respects to the late queenmother of Dormaa Traditional Area, Nana Akosua Ansua, who died in February this year at the age of 54.

Ministers, members of parliament, district chief executives and chiefs were among the mourners who filed past the body.

A government delegation, led by Mr J.H. Owusu-Acheampong, Minister of Food and Agriculture and Member of Parliament for Berekum, was at palace yesterday to mourn with the people of Dormaa.

He was accompanied by Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mrs. Cecilia Johnson, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Kwabena Kyere, Deputy Minister of Education, and Mr Donald Adabre, Brong Ahafo Regional Minister.

Others were Odeneho Oduro Numapau, Esumegyahene, and Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri, Sunyanimanhene.

Mr Owusu-Acheampong, on behalf of the government, presented two bottles of schnapps, two cartons of beer, two crates of minerals and one million cedis as donation to the bereaved family.

Nana Akosua Ansua Ababio, who was enstooled queenmother in 1977, is survived by eight children.

She was buried at the weekend.