Daniel Fenyi, an educationist, and a counselor has chided President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for instituting a committee to oversee the final burial rites of the late diplomat Kofi Annan.
He said such a committee is very useless and insulting to our culture.
Mr Daniel Fenyi said that even though the state has interest in the burial, “hers is to provide national platform for the lying-in-state of the body of the late Kofi Annan, provide a cemetery, and use the nation’s authority to invite and host high profile personalities that will represent different countries and other international civil societies.”
President Akufo-Addo after declaring Thursday, September 13 as the date for the state burial of the former UN Secretary-General, went ahead to appoint a nine-member committee that will organise the funeral rite.
These 9 members chaired by Ambassador Annan A. Cato are:
Cecilia Abena Dapaah (Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources)
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (MP and Minister-designate for Information) Ambassador Mercy Debrah Karikari (Secretary to the Cabinet) Ambassador Ahmed Hassan (Director of State Protocol)
Samuel Kumah (Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Brigadier General Charles Awity (Director General, Personnel Administration of the Ghana Armed Forces)
Ambassador Patrick Hayford ( Retired UN official)
Kojo Annan (Son of the late Mr Kofi Annan)
Nana Mensah (Director of Protocol at the Office of the Vice President)
The late Kofi Annan died in the Swiss capital, Berne after a short illness two weeks ago.
He was the 7th General-Secretary of the United Nations.