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“It’s Hard Saying Goodbye” …Kofi Annan’s Children Say, As World Mourns Global Icon

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September 14, 2018
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“It’s Hard Saying Goodbye”  …Kofi Annan’s Children Say, As World Mourns Global Icon

Current U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, pays his respects by the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, draped with the Ghana flag, during a state funeral at the Accra International Conference Center in Ghana Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. After days of lying in state for mourners to pay their respects the body of Kofi Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, will be buried Thursday after a final funeral ceremony. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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The late former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan yesterday made his final journey to the world beyond in Gun Carriage from the International Conference Centre (ICC), where a solemn but classy state funeral service was held for him, to the new Military Cemetery at Burma Camp, in Accra.

This was after Ghanaians from all walks of life-both high and low, international diplomats as well as presidents of different countries filed past and paid their last respect to the global icon whose body was laid in state since Tuesday after it arrived from Switzerland on Monday.

Kofi Annan led the UN from 1997 to 2006 as the first black African to occupy the secretary general position. He died on August 18 aged 80 at his home in Switzerland after a short illness.

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In a tribute, Ama Annan, Kofi Annan first daughter described her father as a “man of generosity of spirit, who dedicated his life to others, put himself at their disposal and was one of the most loving people I know. He always made you feel welcome and listened attentively to everything you had to say.”

Ama Annan said because of these qualities and many others, she considered herself “lucky” to have Mr Annan as a father and that makes it “hard to say goodbye”.

The current head of the world body, UN, Antonio Gutteres, attended the funeral in Accra. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa was also present including other African heads of state such as Alassane Dramane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, George Weah of Liberia, Hage Geingob of Namibia, and Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger.

In his tribute, the Secretary-General of the UN, António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres said: “Kofi Annan was the United Nations and the United Nations was Kofi Annan.”

According to Guterres, the late former Secretary-General of the UN, who died on August 18, 2018, in Switzerland after a short illness was “an exceptional global leader” and also “someone virtually anyone in the world could see themselves in. Those on the far reaches of poverty, conflict and despair always found in him an ally.”

Current U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, pays his respects by the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, draped with the Ghana flag, during a state funeral at the Accra International Conference Center in Ghana Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. After days of lying in state for mourners to pay their respects the body of Kofi Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, will be buried Thursday after a final funeral ceremony. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Kofi Annan’s son Kojo Annan, left, widow Nane Annan, 2nd left, and daughter Ama Annan, center, join other family members to pay their respects as the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan lies in state at the Accra International Conference Center in Ghana Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Ghanaians are paying their respects to Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, ahead of Thursday’s state funeral. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
United Nations soldiers carry the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana Monday, Sept 10, 2018. The body of Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, received a hero’s welcome upon landing at the airport ahead of Thursday’s state funeral. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

TOPSHOT – An artist paints a portrait of Kofi Annan at the entrance of Accra International Conference Centre in Accra on September 11, 2018, where the coffin of the Ghanaian diplomat and former Secretary General of United Nations who died on August 18 at the age of 80 after a short illness lays. – Annan’s body will remain at Accra Conference Centre until the burial ceremony that will take place on September 13 at Burma Camp military cemetery in Accra. Kofi Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1997 to 2006. (Photo by CRISTINA ALDEHUELA / AFP) (Photo credit should read CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images)
Ghanaian chiefs queue outside to pay their respects as the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan lies in state at the Accra International Conference Center in Ghana Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Ghanaians are paying their respects to Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, ahead of Thursday’s state funeral. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
The coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan lies in state at the Accra International Conference Center in Ghana Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Ghanaians are paying their respects to Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, ahead of Thursday’s state funeral. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Guterres continued: “Kofi Annan was courageous, speaking truth to power whilst subjecting himself to intense self-scrutiny.” Kofi Annan, he said, had an enormous mystical sense of the United Nations as a “force for good in the world of ills.”

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, also in glowing tribute to late former United Nations Secretary-General, described him as someone who sacrificed his life for peace in conflict zones.

He said Mr. Kofi Annan’s personality was needlessly attacked whiles he served in the highest office globally, but he never lost his moral compass.

“Indeed, the outpouring of tributes from the world over is an accurate measure of the man, a man who gave his life to making peace where there was conflict, to defending the voiceless who were powerless, to promoting virtue where there was evil.”

“Despite the unjustified attacks on him, trying to fix him with responsibility for the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica where he was head of UN peace operations, he never lost his moral compass, as he showed when he stood up to the might of the United States of America when they were embarking on their ill-fated intervention in Iraq.”

“Kofi Annan was an ardent believer in the capacity of the Ghanaian and African to chart his or her own course on to the path of progress and prosperity. He found the vision of a Ghana beyond aid, indeed of an African beyond aid, very appealing. Undoubtedly, he excelled in the various undertakings of his life, leaving in his trail most pleasant memories. His was a life well-lived.”

Kofi Annan gave me sensitive advice – Nana Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo said the late Kofi Busumuru Annan, gave him sensitive advice when he took over as President of Ghana.

Nana Akufo-Addo said he appreciated the advice from the late diplomat.

“He gave me sensitive, deeply appreciated advice when I became President of the Republic,” Akufo-Addo said when he read his tribute at Kofi Annan’s burial service held at the Accra International Conference Centre on Thursday.

He said the last time he saw Mr. Annan was in March 2018, when the former international diplomat came to “inform me, much to my discomfiture, that he could no longer continue to serve as Chancellor of Ghana’s premier university, the University of Ghana, Legon, since he had served the two terms permitted by the statutes of the university.”

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