{"id":466077,"date":"2018-02-20T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/bawumia-attends-appiah-menkas-one-week-memorial\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:00:32","slug":"bawumia-attends-appiah-menkas-one-week-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/bawumia-attends-appiah-menkas-one-week-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia attends Appiah-Menka\u2019s one-week memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/44262258.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bawumia Appiah Menka234\" title=\"Bawumia Appiah Menka234\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vice President Dr. Bawumia and other party members shaking hands with family members<\/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\/1519167632_644_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia joined other members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to observe the one-week memorial of Mr Akenten Appiah-Menka, a founding father of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply saddened by his loss and pray the almighty God to grant him peaceful rest. May the Lord comfort the bereaved family.Nana due!\u201d Dr Bawumia later posted on his Facebook wall after the event.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Menka who was a private legal practitioner and businessman is also known for producing the popular Appino soap.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Constitution Review Commission which was established by the Mills administration.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Appiah Menka is also the Chairman of the Ashanti Oil Mills, Appiah Menka Complex Limited and Appiah Menka Plantations.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the Chairman of the Council of Elders of the NPP in the Ashanti Region.<\/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>Vice President Dr. Bawumia and other party members shaking hands with family members Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia joined other members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to observe the one-week memorial of Mr Akenten Appiah-Menka, a founding father of the party. \u201cI am deeply saddened by his loss and pray the almighty God to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":466078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466077","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\/466077","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=466077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}