Ka taƙaita labarin:  (CNN) Dubban 'yan Singapore sun taru a cikin ruwan sama a ranar Lahadi don yin ban kwana ga Lee Kuan Yew, firaministan farko na jihar kudu maso gabashin Asiya wanda ya zana taswirar haɓakar tattalin arzikinta. An rufe akwatin gawa na Lee da tutar ƙasar, kuma an yi masa tafiyar hawainiya a kan tituna masu cike da ruwa na wannan birni mai zafi, inda taron jama'a masu makoki suka yi tsayayya da ruwan sama don su nuna godiyarsu ta ƙarshe. Bukin jana'izar ya samu halartar manyan jami'an kasashen waje, ciki har da tsohon shugaban Amurka Bill Clinton da Firayim Ministan Indiya Narendra Modi. "Hasken da ya yi mana ja-gora dukan waɗannan shekaru ya ɓace. Mun rasa mahaifinmu wanda ya kafa Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, wanda ya rayu kuma ya numfasa Singapore duk rayuwarsa, "Prime Ministan Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, wanda daya daga cikin 'ya'yan Lee ne, ya ce a cikin jawabin girmamawa. Lee ya mutu a safiyar Litinin yana da shekara 91, wanda ya haifar da baƙin ciki da girmamawa daga ko'ina cikin duniya. An kwantar da shi a asibiti da ciwon huhu a ranar 5 ga Fabrairu. An haife shi a 1923, Lee ya kafa Singapore, tsohuwar mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya, a 1965 lokacin da ta ayyana 'yancin kai daga Malaysia. Ya yi aiki a matsayin firaminista na ƙasar fiye da shekaru talatin, ya mai da wannan garin da a dā ba shi da arziki ya zama cibiyar kasuwanci mai arziki. Ya ci gaba da taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin gwamnati har zuwa shekarunsa na ƙarshe. Bayan mutuwar Lee, daruruwan dubban mutane sun shiga manyan layuka don girmama tsohon shugaban yayin da gawarsa ta kasance a cikin jihar a Gidan Majalisar Singapore na kwanaki da yawa a makon da ya gabata. A ranar Lahadi, jerin gwano sun wuce wasu sanannun wuraren tarihi na Singapore a kan hanyar zuwa Cibiyar Al'adu ta Jami'a, inda aka yi jana'izar jihar. "Ba don mu yi makoki kawai muka zo ba. Tare, muna murnar tsawon rayuwar Mista Lee Kuan Yew, da kuma abin da ya samu tare da mu, mutanensa, "in ji dansa a jawabinsa. An kuma girmama Lee ta hanyar yin sallama da bindiga 21 da minti daya na shiru, da kuma nunawa daga Sojojin Sama na Singapore da Sojojin Ruwa na Singapore. Za a yi jana'izar ne a ɓoye. Sauran...
"Hasken da ya shiryar da mu duk wadannan shekarun ya mutu", in ji dan Lee. Jama'a sun yi jerin gwano a kan titunan birnin-jihar don nuna girmamawa ga Lee, wanda ya mutu a ranar Litinin.