Hajia Ramatu Mahama, the wife of the late Vice President of Ghana under John Agyekum Kufour’s administration, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, is dead at age 70.
According to sources close to her, she died with her children and relatives surrounded around her at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on Thursday afternoon, April 7, 2022 after battling a heart desease.
Family members are however in a meeting to plan to inform the government of the decision for her funeral in line with Islamic traditions.
Following the meeting and information to the government funeral plans will be revealed by the state and family.
Meanwhile, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamdu Bawumia, together with some officials had already visited her on Wednesday, April 6 at the hospital after he was informed about her illness.
Neè Egala, popularly called, had been battling a heart-related sickness for about two years and was taken to the United Kingdom for treatment last year.
During her stay in the hospital in London, reports emerged of her death which prompted her son and Member of Parliament for Yendi, Farouk Mahama to issue a statement denying the reports.
She however returned to the country four months ago with family members meeting her on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport. But, her condition was said to have worsened later this week which led to her admission at the hospital.
The late Hajia was an educationist in Tamale. Due to the love and care she had for her pupils, she earned another name which was: ‘Mma Ramatu’ or ‘Mother Ramatu’.
Hajia Ramatu Mahama was the daughter of the late Imoro Egala, a Minister for Trade and Industry and first black chairman of COCOBOD, in the first Republic and a long-standing political stalwart in Ghana through to the third Republic; doubling as a founder of the PNP now PNC.
She left behind four children: Salma Mahama, Farouk Mahama, MP for Yendi, Fayad Mahama, and Halim Mahama.
Meanwhile, she would have turned 71 on October 15, 2022.