Former president Jerry John Rawlings will be buried Wednesday, January 27, 2021, government has announced.
It has therefore communicated the funeral arrangements to the diplomatic community, starting with the laying in state from 24th to 26th January at the forecourt of the Accra International Conference Centre from 9am to 5pm daily.
Also, a memorial mass will be held for Rawlings at the Holy Spirit Cathedral on Tuesday 26 January from 9am to 11am before the actual burial on 27 January at the Independence Square, Accra.
Rawlings died on Thursday, 12th November 2020 after a short illness at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He was 73.
