{"id":667264,"date":"2019-07-29T18:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Aspirant for Afajato South Constituency, Augusta Kafui Takyi, has denied being paralysed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to her brother, Joshua Takyi, his sister is not paralysed as reported earlie"},"modified":"2019-07-29T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:47:56","slug":"ndc-parliamentary-aspirant-not-paralysed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/29\/ndc-parliamentary-aspirant-not-paralysed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;NDC Parliamentary Aspirant Not Paralysed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Aspirant for Afajato South Constituency, Augusta Kafui Takyi, has denied being paralysed.<\/p>\n<p>According to her brother, Joshua Takyi, his sister is not paralysed as reported earlier in the media.<\/p>\n<p>The Communications Director for Augusta\u2019s campaign, Albert Elikem Fia who corroborated the claim by Joshua added that \u201cour candidate is not paralysed, she is only receiving treatment from her Doctor.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Without mentioning the exact condition Augusta was suffering, Albert stressed that \u201cher doctor has advised her not to stand or walk for long until she is fully fit,  hence her temporal use of a wheel chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Fia stated that \u201cI cannot confirm or deny whether the condition is linked to the nomination forms she picked. All I can say is that she is receiving treatment from her doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that Augusta was in very good relationship with everyone and has no problem with her contender who is the incumbent MP, Angela Tay. <\/p>\n<p>He assured Madam Kafui Takyi\u2019s supporters not to panic and disregard rumours that she was paralysed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Fred Duodu, Ho (k.duodu@yahoo.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Aspirant for Afajato South Constituency, Augusta Kafui Takyi, has denied being paralysed. According to her brother, Joshua Takyi, his sister is not paralysed as reported earlier in the media. The Communications Director for Augusta\u2019s campaign, Albert Elikem Fia who corroborated the claim by Joshua added that \u201cour candidate is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;NDC Parliamentary Aspirant Not Paralysed&#039; - 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\/2019\/07\/29\/ndc-parliamentary-aspirant-not-paralysed\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;NDC Parliamentary Aspirant Not Paralysed&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Aspirant for Afajato South Constituency, Augusta Kafui Takyi, has denied being paralysed. 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