Akufo-Addo, Bawumia, Kufuor, others pay last respects to Ama Busia

Scores of Ghanaians trooped to the Forecourt of the State House on Friday, April 26, 2024, to pay their last respects to Ama Busia, a founding member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), who passed away in December 2023.

The funeral, state-sponsored, was held at the State House in honour of the NPP stalwart, and was attended by leading figures of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the government.

The body of Ama Busia, a former First Vice Chairperson of the New Patriotic Party and a prominent member of the Council of Elders, is expected to be transported to her hometown at Wenchi in the Bono Region, where she will be buried on Saturday, April 27, 2024.

Ama Busia, the sister of the late Prime Minister of Ghana, Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, after a brief illness.

Obeng Busia; Ama Busia's son, confirmed her passing at the Nyaho Medical Centre.

She played a significant role in the founding of the Northern People’s Party, which later merged with Danquah and Busia to form the current New Patriotic Party (NPP).

In 1959, Ama Busia went into exile in London with her brother, Kofi Abrefa Busia, studying Institutional Management and Catering at the Regent Street Polytechnic.