{"id":465518,"date":"2018-02-19T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/ebonys-death-tourism-ministry-to-embark-on-road-safety-campaign\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:11:05","slug":"ebonys-death-tourism-ministry-to-embark-on-road-safety-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/ebonys-death-tourism-ministry-to-embark-on-road-safety-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony\u2019s death: Tourism Ministry to embark on road safety campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 19 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/52510578.295.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Afeku   \" title=\"Catherine Afeku   \" width=\"295\" height=\"199\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Ablema Afeku<\/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\/1519038665_817_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Abelema Afeku, has said her Ministry will embark on a road safety awareness campaign to ensure sanity on the roads and save more lives.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments follow the sudden demise of music icon Priscilla Opkou Kwarteng, known in show-business as Ebony Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Ebony\u2019s one-week memorial service on Sunday, Abelema Afeku charged players in the entertainment industry to take the lead in road safety campaigns.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a rallying call for the musicians, the artistes of Ghana to come together and to make a bold statement on road safety on the lives of the precious talent and creative citizens of this country, and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture will support you, \u201cshe said.<\/p>\n<p>This she said is also necessary for the memory of Ebony Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLets us immortalize this tragedy, so something good comes out of it, never again will a star such as Ebony leave this planet in this manner\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The family of the dancehall artiste has set March 17, 2018, as the date for the burial and final funeral rites. The announcement was made during the one-week ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The starlet met her untimely death when she was returning to Accra from Sunyani after visiting her mother who had just returned from the UK, when the Jeep she was travelling in crashed into a VIP bus on Thursday evening, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Jeep survived the crash, but Ebony and two others perished in the crash but most recent reports indicate that he is still receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HV5x-nt17VI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZLMS-PSFa4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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 Monday, 19 February 2018 Source: citifmonline.com 2018-02-19 Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Ablema Afeku The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Abelema Afeku, has said her Ministry will embark on a road safety awareness campaign to ensure sanity on the roads and save more lives. 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