Day 3 of funeral rites for Dr Bawumia's mother marked in Walewale | Citi Newsroom

a display of cultural and religious activities marks the third day funeral rise of the late hajiya mariama balumiya murder of the vice president dr mahmoud as a believer of islam the third day right is an important one to the muslim community a section of muslim imams including sheikh tabori a popular imam from neighboring burkina faso were among the clerics who attended the rise government representatives members of parliament and ministers were part of the thousands who turned up also sheikh bamba a tamil based imam led the quranic recitations [Applause] [Music] but aside the islamic rise the indigenous funeral performance was not left out the traditional drumming and dancing accompanied by appellations was a unique characteristic ruminants including rams and cows were also donated to support the funeral rise here at the entrance of the family house grandsons mounted a block and only one was allowed in at a time after a token was taken from the person this cultural trade has been a long-standing tradition among the mamprouches in northern ghana two of mariama's granddaughters caught attention when they stood forward and claimed that the late mariama owed them 50 000 cds and that money has to be paid by the surviving children no that's our tradition that's our tradition because we are the grandchildren to get that money from the children who say that so that they'll bring out the money but she's not owning us but it's our tradition to do that and if we don't do it the disease will not also be happy in her grave amin affair talks more about certain attributes of their grandmother these newspapers when she was alive this is what she used to do at a leisure time she always take go through the newspapers to know whatever what is happening and this radio is what he always listened to why is feel like sleeping and he doesn't want to sleep then she use this radio to listen to whatever is happening in ghana suma is another of the granddaughters she dressed in the diseased clothing carried her watch newspaper and radio set as she explained the essence to city news i'm dennis i'm in charge of the house so now i'm the vice president's mother now she has gone but she's still alive she's still alive so this is her dress this is the dress this is the veil these the specs the standards everything she's putting on and the watch everything everything is for ajiya hajja mariyama was affectionately called mommy during her life on it she became a fan of many women which is why she had the mummy fan club daughtered across many communities in the westmon bruce municipality jarateu isifu was part of one of the clubs and tells me her legacy will live on mommy farmer club [Applause] in consolidation with clan elders and chiefs have set october 24th as a final funeral rise of hajjah mariama balumiya may hessel rest in peace you

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Published: Thu Sep 16 2021