Nana Akwasi Agyemang, a former Metropolitan Chief Executive of the
Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly was on Monday, February 24, 2020, buried at the
Royal Mausoleum at Bantama, in Kumasi.
Nana Agyemang, who was famously known as
Okumkom, died on January 14, 2020, in Kumasi at the age of 86.
The burial service was held at St. Anns Church
after which the body was sent to the Mausoleum.
Meanwhile, the funeral rite has been slated for
February 27, this year.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene sat in state at
the Manhyia Palace and exchanged pleasantries with mourners.
Among the mourners was the Vice President, Dr
Mahamudu Bawumia.
Others were the former presidents Flt Lt Jerry
John Rawlings, John Agyekum Kufuor and John Dramani Mahama.
Nana Agyeman was a member of the Oyoko Royal
Family and was one of the longest-serving Metropolitan Chief Executives in
Kumasi.
Nana Agyemang had a long political history
dating back to 1977 during the Supreme Military Council government of the late
Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong where he served as chairman of Kumasi
Metropolitan Assembly.
He subsequently went on to serve as Metropolitan
Chief Executive (MCE) for Kumasi, under two other heads of state, Dr Hilla
Limann and Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, and became a close confidante of the
latter.
Nana Agyemang was appointed Deputy Minister of
Science and Environment under Rawlings’s regime and was once considered a
leading contender for the vacant Asante Stool, following the death of Otumfuo
Opoku Ware II, in 1999.
FROM KINGSLEY E. HOPE, KUMASI
