Hajia Mariama Bawumia, mother of Vice President Bawumia who died in the early hours of Monday after a short illness will be buried today, Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in Walewale by Islamic custom.
She was 81 years.
Hajia Mariama was a native of Kpasenkpe in the West Mamprusi district of the North East Region.
She was one of the few girls from the northern part of Ghana to have gained admission to Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast.
Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is an economist and a banker. He was born on October 7, 1963, in Tamale to the late Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, former Chairman of the Council of State (1992–2000), and Hajia Mariama Bawumia. He was born into a large family and the 12th of his father’s 18 children and the second of his mother’s five children. His father was a teacher, lawyer, and politician and a Mamprugu Royal and Paramount Chief of Kperiga in the Northern Region. Dr. Bawumia is married to Samira Ramadan Bawumia, the only daughter of Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, the former PNC National Chairman with three children.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
