A directive from the Manhyia Palace ordered that all residents join in giving the city a face-lift in terms of sanitation.

As part of the directive, all shops are to be opened after 12 midday when cleaning is over.

On Friday primary and Junior High school pupils helped clean the surroundings of the Kumasi Airport, through the Airport roundabout to the Manhyia Palace.

Roads leading to the Central Business District have also been blocked for this purpose.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Waste Department’s direction, Mr. Gorkeh Mia said “150 waste collecting tricycles have been deployed to take waste off the street after the general cleanup.”

The burial rites of the late Asante Queen mother will begin on Monday, 16 to Thursday 19th of this year.

Earlier, the Manhyia Palace had ordered that people stay indoors from 7pm of Thursday evening to 4am of Friday morning. This generated fear amongst residents, however, Otumfuo’s Mawrehene, Baffour Hyeaman Brantuo IV has allayed fears.

He said as tradition demands, “the journey to the village should go on uninterrupted, that is why we are asking people to stay indoors. The tradition of having peoples’ heads for burial was abolished 200 years ago.”

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By: Lauretta Timah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Speaking at a press conference organized by the Council, Otumfuo Akyeamehene, Nana Nsuase Opoku Agyeman III, revealed that the Queenmother will be laid in state from Monday, 16th January 2017, to Thursday, 19th January 2017.

This according to the Akyeamhene, it is the ‘Doteyie’ and not the final funeral rites for the late Queenmother.

Other arrangements for the funeral rites are as follow:

MONDAY

All Nananom in the Asante Kingdom will file past the Queen and pay their last respect from morning till 11am. At 11am, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will file past his late mother. He will then sit to receive sympathizers. Members of the public can file past the Queenmother afterwards.

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

Kings and Chiefs outside the Asante Kingdom are expected to file past the late Queenmother and show their last respect. The President of the republic of Ghana, past Ghanaian Presidents, Ministers, All Government officials as well as top business men and women will also show their last respect on Tuesday and Wednesday. Dignitaries from Swaziland, Seychelles, Là Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and other countries are also expected to file past the Queenmother on Wednesday.

THURSDAY

His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will not sit to receive sympathizers on Thursday. The Akyeamhene noted that, he will only sit for an hour to receive greetings from dignitaries who could not get the chance the previous day to greet him.

The Queenmother will at 11am on Thursday morning be taken to St. Cyprians Anglican Church for a Burial Mass. Akyeamhene said only accredited people will be allowed into the Church Auditorium, whereas members of the public will be hosted at the Jubilee park, where a giant screen will be mounted, displaying happenings at the Church.

The body will then be marched through the pricipal streets in the capital including Adum and Bantama; where wreaths will be laid.

The Queenmother will be taken to Breman, were she will be put to rest.

As part of the arrangements for the burial of the Queenmother, no one is to be seen on the streets of Bantama to Breman, from 6:00pm of Thursday, 19th January to 3:00am of Friday 20th January.

The Akyeamhene said the Manhyia Palace will not be held accountable for the lives of people and domestic animals who are seen loitering at that said times.

SECURITY

According to the Akyeamhene, the planning committee the Military and the police will be deployed to help in crowd management, and ensuring law and order through the 4-day period.

MEDICAL

Head of the Medical team, Mawerehene, Nana Baafour Osei Hyeaman Brantuo VI says measures have been put in place to cater for all medical needs that may arise. “We stitched about 20 arms and legs during the funeral of the Late Nana Opoku Ware II, because of stampede, and so we are very ready this time.” He added that, “medical tents will be mounted at vantage points, and people can seek for medical care during the days of mourning.”

COSTUME

All mourners should be in the official mourning cloth, ‘Kuntunkuni’, or anything black, except dignitaries from other countries who are not permitted to do so by culture.

SANITATION

Otumfuo’s Mawerehene, Nana Baafour Osei Hyeaman Brantuo VI admonished people living close to principal streets in Kumasi to tidy up the streets and keep clean the surroundings before Monday 16th January.

Otumfuo Akyeamhene added that no shop should be seen open on Thursday.

BACKGROUND

The death of the Queenmother of the Ashanti Kingdom was reported in the late hours of 15th November 2016.

The Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II passed away at the age of 109 years. he biological mother of the current occupant of the Golden Stool. She was the Asantehemaa for 39 years.

She was the biological mother of the current occupant of the Golden Stool. She was the Asantehemaa for 39 years.

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