The Ghana Police Service has launched an inventory of highway closures and visitors diversions forward of the Inter-Denominational and Inter-Religion State Funeral in Accra on Friday, August 15, for the eight (8) people who misplaced their lives within the tragic navy helicopter crash at Adansi Akrofuom on Wednesday, 6 August.
In an announcement dated Thursday, 14 August, the police introduced that the next roads within the neighborhood of the occasion can be closed:
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twenty eighth February Highway from CEPS Site visitors Gentle Intersection to Citadel Highway Junction.
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Osu Cemetery Site visitors Gentle on Lokko Avenue.
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Citadel Highway from AU to Osu Cemetery Site visitors Gentle.
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Starlet 91 Highway, which can be closed on the Ministries Site visitors Gentle Intersection.
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Site visitors Diversions
Motorists are suggested to pay attention to the next diversions:
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Site visitors from La, Labone and Osu on twenty eighth February Highway heading in direction of the Accra Central Enterprise District and the Ministries can be diverted onto Salem Avenue Highway on the Citadel Site visitors Gentle to attach with Oxford Avenue.
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Motorists from Lokko Avenue, Osu heading in direction of Citadel Highway ought to use Ajumaku Avenue and Oxford Avenue in Osu.
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Site visitors from John Evans Atta Mills Excessive Avenue in direction of Black Star Sq. can be diverted onto Liberia Highway on the CEPS Site visitors Intersection in direction of the Nationwide Theatre Site visitors Gentle Intersection.
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Site visitors from AU Circle heading to Citadel Highway by way of Osu Cemetery Site visitors Gentle can be diverted onto Abdul Diouf and King Hassan Roads, linking with Abdul Nasser Highway in entrance of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ).
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Funeral Preparations
The funeral planning committee, in an deal with by Deputy Chief of Employees Stan Dogbe, confirmed that the ceremony can be held in three elements. It’ll start with Bible and Qur’an recitals, adopted by the primary service, and conclude with the burial. The pre-burial programme will run from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
The Vice President is anticipated to reach at 8:50 a.m., adopted by President John Dramani Mahama at 9:00 a.m., marking the beginning of the state service.
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The three-hour ceremony will embrace the studying of biographies of all eight victims, together with tributes from widows, youngsters, authorities officers, and institutional representatives. Following the service, the stays of six victims can be transported to the navy cemetery at Tse Addo for interment, with burial rites carried out collectively by the Ghana Armed Forces and the respective church buildings of the deceased.
