Mr. James Gunu, Volta Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called for a state burial for the late Dr Kwabena Adjei, former National Chairman of the Party.
Mr Gunu said Dr Agyei, a former Minister of State had sacrificed his life for the country and needed a befitting recognition and burial.
"The late former Chairman paid his dues to both party and country from when he was elected as Council Member for the Jasikan District Council in 1978 to the position of First Majority Chief Whip in 1993 and then to being a Member of Parliament for Biakoye in the Volta Region in 2001, Minister and many more, so he must be given the needed recognition," he told the GNA.
Dr Agyei was born on 9th March 1943 at Nkonya Ntsumuru in the Volta Region and died at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital on Tuesday, March 12 after a short illness, aged 76.
Mr Gunu said a state burial for the former Chairman of the NDC would serve as motivation to the new political generation that their sacrifices for the nation would not be in vain.
He said the nation and the NDC Party had lost a political strategist and a statesman and that the “gap he left behind would be difficult to fill”
The late Dr Agyei was a Member of the Council of Elders of the NDC, Former PNDC Secretary for Volta Region and Former Minister for Lands and Forestry and Food and Agriculture.
The NDC has declared three days of mourning for the late former Chairman and suspended all Party activities.
The Party’s flags are expected to fly at half-mast and a book of condolence opened at the Party’s headquarters and Volta Regional Secretariat.
Source: GNA
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enkwasiasem nkoa ndc will always want to abuse the state, it they were to be in power they would have wasted state resource on this funeral to the extent of luuuting along side, cr1minal political party
What non sense is this? The NDC should give him a state burial themselves? Nkwaseas3m!
Nons*ense and nons*ense!;state burial for ndc former chairman? are we ***barred word*** or plain ignor*ant what did ndc do for Ghana for the 27 years if our 62 years of independence for them to dictate to us?do they think they matter in opposition? even in opposition they are still incompetent! do they have to direct the government what to do with their dead? nkwase*asem paa de3 Ghanafuo 3te bi?after l000*00t in the state coffers they want a state burial for their dead ! so that means when Otukorno or Sammy Gyamfi dies we have to give them state burial is that what ndc is telling us? aaaaaaah! nkwas*easem paaaa ni! Mr President please we didn't vote for you for the ndc to dictate to you! just imagine if he was an NPP and they were in power will these evil ndc entertain that? and even the NPP wouldn't make such ***barred word*** request, do unto others what you want others to do unto you, nobody is special and above anyone being a mere party official doesn't mean he served the state and if even that what good service did the ndc give to Ghanaians in power that state resources must be used for their dead ! They want state resources to be used and after kidnap, kill Ghanaians and make others feel uncomfortable and us tate what the government is going to look on to bury that man? there are so many ways to kill a cat? are we serious as a nation for our resources to be used to bury enemies of this nation?unpatriotic people and anti-Ghana elements? whatever ndc said in that tape is still being practiced in small bits and they want state burial?it should be over the dead bodies of Ghanaians! Nana please don't pay heed to such things that will infuriate some of we Ghanaians, they know you are a good man and know you will do it if they say so but this one we need money for Ghanaian children who are going to school and who are being abused so state funds must be used to benefit Ghanaians not ndc deads! If ndc can't bury their dead after all the l0*00ting but want the state to do that for them then just leave them. They benefited enough from Ghana but Ghana has got nothing from the ndc! ndc must tell us just one intervention they brought to help Ghanaians for Ghana to bury their dead! Irritants !
WELL SAID, MAN(?) WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS EQUALLY GOOD FOR THE GANDER. IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT IS GOOD FOR A MAN IS GOOD FOR A WOMAN.
it shall be granted. The president will look into this request. Lets put party aside and build our nation.
If that is the convension for Party chairmen fine what happened to Jake? Is Kwabena Adjei better than Jake