The Committee overseeing the funeral for the victims of the Wednesday, August 6, 2025 tragic helicopter crash has outlined activities lined up for today's state funeral.To be conducted with full military honour, the funeral service will be in three parts - Bible and Qu'ran recitals, the funeral service and burial.The Committee has also outlined measures to ensure incident-free burial service with regards to security, road traffic and car park­ing management, car security arrangement amongst others.Briefing the media in Accra yesterday, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, Stan Dogbe, said the pre-burial programme would last between 07:30 and 09:00.President John Dramani Mahama and his Vice, Prof.

Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Mr Dogbe said would arrive at 09:00am and 8:50am respectively at the Black Star Square for the main service to commence.Expected to last three hours, the funeral service would feature reading of biographies of all eight victims of the crash, tributes from widows, children, government officials, friends and institutional representatives, Mr Dogbe said."After the service, the bodies of the six that are yet to be buried would be conveyed to the Military Cemetery at Tse Addo for burial.

And there as well, the GAF together with the churches of the six departed com­rades will take charge of the burial ceremony at the military cemetery," he explained.Bearing in mind the outpouring of af­fection since the incident and the expected number of mourners, Mr Dogbe said mea­sures had been put in place for a solemn and orderly ceremony."Because of the rather large number of people that will be expected tomorrow, a number of measures have been taken to ensure that we have a very solemn ceremony.

We are trying our best to provide as many chairs as we can to accommodate the thou­sands of people that we expect to join the various families and the government officials here for the service."We are going to label the various cano­pies appropriately to accommodate those who will be coming.