Ho, July 28, GNA - The Asogli State Council would perform nine-day customary final funeral rites for Agbogbomefia Togbe Afede Asor II and three of his elders from Friday August 1, to Saturday August 9, at Ho Bankoe. They died between 2000 and 2006. A statement signed by the Secretary to the Asogli State Council, Mr John Kukah, named the three elders as Togbe Adzimah III, Atamfia, Asafo Wuor III and Ametsitsi Fiakofi Akpo. The statement said on August I and August 9, there would be firing of musketry and performance of Dum, Asafo and Adabatram drums.

In between these days there would be singing of dirges by women, and performances involving "all powerful war drums like Zagada, Dum and Adabatram". The statement said the performance of the funeral was to allow the late Agbogbomefia and his late elders to have a final repose with their ancestors. "It is believed that when no funeral is performed for the chief, his elders and prominent members, they remain on the way and never reach their ancestors". They in turn "block the way and prevent others after them from the particular clan from entering the next world", the statement said.