Justice must be served - Rawlings

“I am hoping and looking forward to the late Ya-Naa also seeing justice being done over the manner in which he left us so that his funeral may be carried out in a decent way for all of us to have the peace of mind the country needs and deserves.

“For his departure to have gone on through three administrations [governments] without seeing the necessary justice to ensure a decent funeral for him is a painful load that some of us carry and this is something we should all be thinking about. Let us do justice to what led to his departure and I believe there will be a decent funeral,” Mr Rawlings said.

The former president made this known when the family of the late Ernest Debrah, a former Minister for Agriculture, paid a courtesy call on him at his residence on Thursday to officially inform him about the date for burial.

Mr Rawlings described the late Ernest Debrah as  “quiet, amiable and unassuming personality.”

According to him, it was painful to lose “people like him and personalities such as Paul Victor Obeng because the country needs people of their caliber.”

Mr Ernest Debrah died at the age of 69 after a short illness.

The funeral will take place on Saturday July 30, at Tanoso in Sunyani.