Ghanaians on Wednesday, January 27, bid farewell to their longest-serving head of state, Jerry John Rawlings after holding four-day final funeral rites in his honour.
The body of the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was laid in state from Monday to Wednesday with hundreds filing past to pay their last respects.
The body of the first President of the Fourth Republic was be laid to rest after he died on November 12, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The carriage conveying the casket drove through the Osu Cemetery traffic light, the Ridge Roundabout, through the Independence Avenue Roundabout to the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, joined the Ring Road towards the Ako Adjei Interchange, then to the 37 Military Hospital and then the Burma Camp, the Air Force Base and finally the Military Cemetery for interment.
At Burma Camp, school kids in their various classroom came out to pay their last respect to the former leader.
The casket was mounted on a gun carriage, with an Air Force helicopter providing escort for the cortege as it moved to Mr Rawlings’s final resting place.
Horse riders were also part of the final drawing out, with one horse without a rider pulled along to signify the sense of loss for the fallen hero, who was himself an ardent horse rider.
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Photos By Joseph Nii Ankrah
