Many residents in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region have been beaten and several of them sustain injuries after they failed to wear red or a black dress to signify mourning of the ongoing funeral rights of the late Queen mother of the area.
Some youth in red and black cloth took to the streets with the support of Personnel from the Police Service attack and assaulted victims who failed to observed the directive of the traditional council of the area.
All basic schools in the Sunyani Municipality are to break from Wednesday, February 26 to Friday, February 28, 2020. This is a directive from the Ghana Education Service. This denotes that pupils and students in both public and private basic schools in the Municipality will not go to school during the said period.
The solemn atmosphere of the regional capital, which has its trees and electricity poles draped in red and black ribbons, signifying mourning, has changed the once lively municipality. Sounds of throbbing traditional dirges from local radio stations have filled the airwaves and many residents are in mourning clothes with the city clad with red and black paraphernalia.
According to the arrangements, the body of the late Queen Mother would be laid in state at the ‘Boahen Korkor Fie’ (the palace of the Sunyani paramountcy) at Asufufu, a suburb of Sunyani from Wednesday, February 26 through to Friday, February 28. The late Queen Mother of Sunyani, Nana Yaa Nyamaa Puduo Known in private life as Helena Akosua Yeboaa, was enstooled in 1973 aged 18 just after completing elementary education at the Nyamaa Girls Middle School in Sunyani and reigned for 46 years. She is survived by four children. Nana Yaa Nyamaa passed on aged 64 on Thursday, August 1, 2019, at the Sunyani Regional Hospital of an undisclosed ailment.
