{"id":1073241,"date":"2022-05-02T02:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T02:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/president-akufo-addo-joins-thousands-of-mourners-donates-50k-to-support-denkyirahenes-burial-rites\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T02:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T02:15:51","slug":"president-akufo-addo-joins-thousands-of-mourners-donates-50k-to-support-denkyirahenes-burial-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/president-akufo-addo-joins-thousands-of-mourners-donates-50k-to-support-denkyirahenes-burial-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"President Akufo-Addo Joins Thousands Of Mourners ;Donates 50k To Support Denkyirahene\u2019s Burial Rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0joins huge crowd of mourners on day seven of the final day of the burial rites of the late Denkyirahene,\u00a0Odeefo Boa-Amponsem III.<\/p>\n<p>Among them were Ministers of State, Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Diplomatic Corps.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen,Nana Ama Ayensuaa Saara III flanked by \u2018Amanhene\u2019 (paramount chiefs) and Abrempong (divisional chiefs) clad in war cloth\u00a0 sat in state to exchange greetings with mourners.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral has been a public display of the unique culture of Denkyira and the elegance of the Denkyira Royalty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/761455860be44b17928f10179f592f66\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The intimidating looks of the executioners, clattering of the swords and the performances by the traditional priests, with their faces smeared with powder, held many spellbound.<\/p>\n<p>The intricate dance performances to \u2018Bomaa\u2019 \u2018Asaasaa\u2019, \u2018kete\u2019, \u2018atumpan\u2019 and \u2018nwomkro\u2019 by the queens (ahemaa) and other royals was a delight to watch.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0 His Excellence donated 30 cartons Of drinks ,20 cartons Of Water and an amount of 50,000 cedis\u00a0 to support\u00a0 Denkyirahene burial rites.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: [email\u00a0protected] (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAmanhene<br \/>\nDenkyirahene<br \/>\nNana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo<br \/>\nNana Ama Ayensuaa Saara III<br \/>\nOdeefo Boa-Amponsem<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0joins huge crowd of mourners on day seven of the final day of the burial rites of the late Denkyirahene,\u00a0Odeefo Boa-Amponsem III. Among them were Ministers of State, Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Diplomatic Corps. The Queen,Nana Ama Ayensuaa Saara III flanked by \u2018Amanhene\u2019 (paramount chiefs) and Abrempong (divisional chiefs) clad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11266,648,1816,10235,2332,658,11267,275,10007,115,11040],"class_list":["post-1073241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-50k","tag-akufoaddo","tag-burial","tag-denkyirahenes","tag-donates","tag-joins","tag-mourners","tag-president","tag-rites","tag-support","tag-thousands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}