{"id":464635,"date":"2018-02-15T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/15\/appiah-menkas-death-should-charge-us-with-responsibility-to-move-forward-mahama\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:25:55","slug":"appiah-menkas-death-should-charge-us-with-responsibility-to-move-forward-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/15\/appiah-menkas-death-should-charge-us-with-responsibility-to-move-forward-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Appiah Menka\u2019s death should charge us with responsibility to move forward &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 15 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-15<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/91135668.295.jpg\" alt=\"Apente Appiah Menka NPP\" title=\"Apente Appiah Menka NPP\" width=\"295\" height=\"252\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Late Appiah Menka<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518711955_266_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former President John Mahama says the death of Akenten Appiah Menka should charge Ghanaians with the responsibility to continue the pursuit of constitutionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Eulogizing the fallen legend, the former president described the late Menka as selfless, remembering him for his work on the constitution review committee is commendable.<\/p>\n<p>The post reads: \u201cRIP \u2018Uncle\u2019 Akenten Appiah Menka. Remembered for your selfless work on the Constitution Review Committee set up by President Atta Mills. Your death should charge us with the responsibility to move that critical process forward\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran political tower had been battling an illness for some time now until his demise Tuesday night, Myjoyonline.com has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>The late Appiah Menka served as a Minister of State in the Kofi Abrefa Busia-led administration in the Second Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in a statement signed by acting General Secretary, John Boadu, has directed all party flags to fly at half-mast for seven (7) days as a mark of respect in honor of his memory.<\/p>\n<p>National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Mion, Mohammed Abdul-Aziz also described the late Menka on Joy News TV\u2019s AM Show, as a national asset although he \u201cdoesn\u2019t agree with him politically\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Co-party folk and MP for Bantama, Daniel Okyem Aboagye described the former statesman as irreplaceable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">RIP \u2018Uncle\u2019 Akenten Appiah Menka. Remembered for your selfless work on the Constitution Review Committee set up by President Atta Mills. Your death should charge us with the responsibility to move that critical process forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/964018912034721792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>General News of Thursday, 15 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-15 Late Appiah Menka Former President John Mahama says the death of Akenten Appiah Menka should charge Ghanaians with the responsibility to continue the pursuit of constitutionalism. Eulogizing the fallen legend, the former president described the late Menka as selfless, remembering him for his work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":464636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}