{"id":466209,"date":"2018-02-21T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/no-state-burial-for-ebony-tourism-ministry\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:30:30","slug":"no-state-burial-for-ebony-tourism-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/no-state-burial-for-ebony-tourism-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"No state burial for Ebony &#8211; Tourism Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 20 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>dailyguideafrica.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/51068412.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony Reigns GhanaWeb Interview  5\" title=\"Ebony Reigns GhanaWeb Interview  5\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ebony Reigns will be buried on  March 17, 2018<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519205430_407_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Late popular dancehall artiste, Ebony Reigns, who is to be buried on March 17 won\u2019t get a state burial.<\/p>\n<p>The state, NEWS-ONE has gathered, will rather support the family in the best way it can to put up a befitting funeral for the songstress, whose death has become a subject of national interest.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on heels of earlier media reports that the government is planning with the family to give Ebony, born Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, a state burial.<\/p>\n<p>The reports quoted Ebony\u2019s manager, Bullet, for making the claim.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Minister for Tourism, Arts &amp; Culture, Catherine Abelema Afeku, who described Ebony\u2019s death as a great loss to the creative arts industry, disclosed that her ministry is deliberating with the family to give her a befitting burial, not a state burial.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated government has not promised the family a state burial and the family is happy with government\u2019s arrangement so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a misconception. It is a private family issue. We told the family that on behalf of the ministry, we will help give her a befitting burial and that\u2019s exactly what we are doing,\u201d she said on Hitz FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState burials are at the discretion of the president. That\u2019s not what we promised. Nobody told anyone about state burial but the family is happy,\u201d she reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>The late Ebony Reigns died in an accident when travelling from Sunyani to Accra. She died together with her best friend, Francisca Kuri, otherwise called Frankie, and Francis AtsuVondee, a soldier with the Ghana Air Force, believed to be Ebony\u2019s bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>She passed on exactly a week to her 21st birthday, which was Friday, February 16, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming number of Ghanaians thronged the St Martin\u2019s De Porres School at Dansoman in Accra Sunday to observe her one-week celebration.<\/p>\n<p>She will be buried on March 17, and the family is yet to announce the venue for the funeral.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com 2018-02-20 Ebony Reigns will be buried on March 17, 2018 Late popular dancehall artiste, Ebony Reigns, who is to be buried on March 17 won\u2019t get a state burial. The state, NEWS-ONE has gathered, will rather support the family in the best way it can to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}