The memory of a week of Dr. Kwabena Adjei took place

Saturday, March 23, 2019 Policy

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-03-23

The commemorative ceremony of one week in honor of the former National President of the National Democratic Congress, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, took place Friday in Accra.
The memorial service that took place Thursday at the Legon Botanical Garden was characterized by a dark atmosphere with dozens of dignitaries, sympathizers and the general public filling up the event site to full capacity.

Jerry John Rawlings, NDC founder, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC National President, and NDC Secretary General Johnson Asiedu Nketia were among the dignitaries present.

National President of the new Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, NPP Secretary General John Boadu and other party leaders were also present at the ceremony.

Dr. Adjei died on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital as a result of a long illness.

The weeklong ceremony was originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, 2019.

However, after consultations between the bereaved family and the NDC funeral committee, the ceremony was postponed to Thursday to give its organizers plenty of time to plan.

Funeral arrangements

The brother of the late Dr. Kwabena Adjei, Mr. Frank Kwaku Adjei, said in an interview with the Daily Graphic that the deceased's funeral arrangements would take place on Friday, May 31, 2019.

According to the arrangements, he said, the body would rest in state on the forecourt of the State House Friday morning so that people in mourning can pay their last respects to the deceased.

On the same day, the body, he added, will be transported to his hometown, Nkonya, in Biakoye District, in the Oti region, where a vigil will ring to announce the latest funeral rites.

The last funeral ceremonies in his hometown, said Mr. Adjei, will take place on Saturday, June 1, 2019, after which the body will be buried in a cemetery that has not yet been decided.

"On Sunday, June 2, 2019, there will be a thanksgiving service at the Nkonya E.P. Church where the whole process will be completed," he said.

Dr. Kwabena Adjei

The former president, usually called "Wayo, Wayo" by his close friends and badociates, entered politics in 1978 when he was elected a member of the Jasikan District Council.

From 1979 to 1981, he was Biakoye's parliamentary candidate for the Popular Front Party.

Dr. Kwabena Adjei became Deputy Minister of State of the Volta Region, Provisional Council of National Defense (PNDC), between 1986 and 1987.

From 1987 to 1992, he was Under-Secretary of the PNDC and Deputy Minister of State for Industry, Science and Technology; member of the Committee of Secretaries (PNDC Cabinet) from 1998 to 1992; a key member of the NDC since its founding in 1992; and the member for the constituency of Biakoye between 1993 and 1996, as well as from 1996 to 2000.

In Parliament, Mr. Kwabena Adjei became the Chief Whip of the majority in 1994 and majority leader between 1998 and 2000, and was a member of various committees of Parliament.

He was Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests in 1994/1996, Minister of Food and Agriculture (1998) and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs of the Fourth Republic.

National President

Dr. Kwabena Adjei was elected National Party President for the first time in 2005, while the party was in opposition.

He was re-elected in 2009. However, in 2014, he was re-elected for his third candidacy for the presidency of Mr. Kofi Portuphy.