Scores of Muslims from Tema, where the late model grew up, thronged the Tema Community 9 cemetery about 3:30 p.m. to bid farewell to a man many youth in the Tema metropolis described as a philanthropist.<\/p>\n
Associates of the deceased and scores of models and student models from Sima’s agency were also present.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”Wcf6aUXqHFHoFV9KHCjxIyEUksdaikgB”]Family members wailed uncontrollably as the body, wrapped in a white calico, was conveyed to the grave side.<\/p>\n
A Muslim cleric from the Nima Central Mosque, Sheikh Saeed Dahaman, who performed the burial rites, challenged Muslim youth not to be swayed by material things.<\/p>\n
Hard work, he emphasised, paid.<\/p>\n
“While we all testify about how good Sima was, there’s the need to uphold good virtues and shun evil tendencies,” he counselled.<\/p>\n
No foul play<\/strong><\/p>\n The Head of the late model trainer\u2019s family, Alhaji Mohammed Mola, discounted claims that the deceased had passed on as a result of medical negligence.<\/p>\n The deceased’s son, Abu Ibrahim, had blamed medical staff of the Police Hospital for failing to give appropriate care to his father.<\/p>\n “We believe it was his appointed time to join his Maker,” Alhaji Mola stressed.<\/p>\n Sima died last Thursday night at the Police Hospital in Accra where he was being treated after he had complained of bodily pains resulting from playing a football match at the Nsawam Prison last Wednesday.<\/p>\n During the match, he clashed with the goalkeeper of the opposing side but kept playing until the end.<\/p>\n He was taken to the Nsawam Prison Infirmary, from where he was referred to the Nsawam Government Hospital and later transferred to the Police Hospital in Accra where he died.<\/p>\n Alhaji Mola urged the public to desist from attempts to draw the family into the public debate on what might have occasioned Sima\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Skimpy clothes parade<\/strong><\/p>\n The burial ground was, meanwhile, turned into a mini fashion parade, which saw female models in skimpy black attire with matching high heels.<\/p>\n While some were in a sombre mood, others happily grouped and discussed events that had led to the rise and fall of a man credited to have revolutionised Ghana’s fashion industry.<\/p>\n Sima was imprisoned in 2007 after being convicted for concealing narcotic drugs in a tuber of yam being exported to Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n