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President
Mills eulogies Dr Agama
Accra, Aug. 24, Ghanadot/GNA- The
late Dr Godfried Kportufe Agama, former Governor of the Bank
of Ghana, who died on Wednesday, August 5, would be buried
on September 4, at Asidowhi, Agave in the South Tong
District of the Volta Region.
This would be preceded by the laying in state of the body at
the Trinity College, at Legon in Accra.
Mr Francis Kwame Akoto, a family spokesman announced the
funeral arrangement when he a family delegation called on
President John Evans Atta Mills at the Osu Castle in Accra.
President Mills expressed his condolences to the wife and
children, as well as the bereaved family.
He described the death of Dr Agama as a dear loss to the
nation, the family and the people of the Volta Region.
The late Dr Agama died at the age of 74 at the 37 Military
Hospital after a short illness.
Until his death, he was the Chairman of Intercontinental
Bank.
President Mills expressed shock at the death of the late
banker and paid tribute to him as a patriot, giant
intellectual and trail blazer.
He described him as role model who lived his life to the
full, did his work to the best of his ability and was ready
to listen to people who came around him.
The death of Dr Agama, the President said, had created a
vacuum and asked the good Lord to repose his soul.
Mr James Victor Gbeho, Presidential Advisor on Foreign
Policy, reminisced the days of the late banker as a young
lecturer at the University of Ghana and a fiery politician
on the political stage.
He said the late Dr Agama distinguished himself as governor,
and as "a good human being, a cheerful person, who did not
talk a lot but found enough words to express his commitment,
loyalty and friendship.
Mr Gbeho promised that Government would assist in the burial
of the late governor.
Dr Agama was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Ghana
between 1968 and 1969 and became active in politics again on
the ticket of the United National Convention between 1979
and 1981.
He became Governor of the Bank of Ghana from 1987 to 1997,
and until his death was also a member of the Board of the
proposed Evangelical Presbyterian Church University.
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