{"id":427232,"date":"2017-10-10T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/im-alive-and-strong-wa-east-mp\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:53:03","slug":"im-alive-and-strong-wa-east-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/im-alive-and-strong-wa-east-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m alive and strong \u2013 Wa East MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WA-MP-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Wa East Godfred Tangu has dismissed rumours his death, saying he&#8217;s hale.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports on social media that the Legislator had died after battling a strange sickness.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tangu, reacting to news of his death in a phone interview with Kasapa FM\u2019s Upper West regional Correspondent Musah Lansah said; <em>\u201cwe also heard it just this morning and I am the one talking to you now. I don\u2019t know whether dead people talk. Dead people don\u2019t talk. I am just in the premises and I am going for a committee meeting so I don\u2019t know where this story is coming from.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP, however disclosed that he&#8217;d been sick and had undergone surgery for a waist problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bs-irp left bs-irp-thumbnail-1\">\n<div class=\"bs-pagination-wrapper main-term-none none \">\n<div class=\"listing listing-thumbnail listing-tb-1 clearfix columns-1\">\n<div class=\"post-269363 type-post format-standard has-post-thumbnail clearfix listing-item listing-item-thumbnail listing-item-tb-1 main-term-5\">\n<div class=\"featured\"><em>\u00a0\u201cI know the enemy is at work. In fact it has been going on for some time now. People have been fabricating stories about my health situation. Indeed I had a waist problem and underwent operation in June and I have been recuperating since then,\u201d<\/em> he told Lansah.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mr. Tangu also refuted claims that he had written to the Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye informing him of his inability to continue as MP, adding that he had sought permission from the Speaker and Majority leader respectively to seek treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Wa East Godfred Tangu has dismissed rumours his death, saying he&#8217;s hale. There have been reports on social media that the Legislator had died after battling a strange sickness. Mr. Tangu, reacting to news of his death in a phone interview with Kasapa FM\u2019s Upper West regional Correspondent Musah Lansah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019m alive and strong \u2013 Wa East MP - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/im-alive-and-strong-wa-east-mp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I\u2019m alive and strong \u2013 Wa East MP - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Member of Parliament for Wa East Godfred Tangu has dismissed rumours his death, saying he&#8217;s hale. 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