{"id":761108,"date":"2019-12-09T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/akufo-addo-mourns-slain-npp-treasurer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:41:15","slug":"akufo-addo-mourns-slain-npp-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/akufo-addo-mourns-slain-npp-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo Mourns Slain NPP Treasurer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The late Mark Yaw Ofori<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday joined hundreds of people in Sekondi-Takoradi to mourn the Takoradi Constituency Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was killed at his resident.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Yaw Ofori was murdered in cold blood at his resident at Fijai, a suburb of Sekondi, by unidentified gunmen on Wednesday, October 30, 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"382\" data-  data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191207_135418_4-282x300.jpg\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254957 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254957 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20359%20382'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191207_135418_4-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"382\" data- data-\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The assailants reportedly went straight to the victim\u2019s bedroom and shot him in the chest, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of mourners, including NPP stalwarts, who thronged the Takoradi Bethel Methodist Service to bid farewell to the deceased, wept uncontrollably.<\/p>\n<p>He was buried on Saturday after the heavily attended burial service.<\/p>\n<p>Rt. Rev John Harvey-Ewusi, Supernumerary of the Methodist Church, in his sermon, said that \u201cGod expects men to give Him thanks in all situations,\u201d stressing that whatever took place was to be entrusted into the hands of God.<\/p>\n<p>He said the preliminary police reports that indicated that the assailants did not take anything apart from a laptop computer clearly showed that Mark Ofori was the target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" data-  data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191207_090123_6-300x225.jpg\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254958 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254958 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20401%20301'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191207_090123_6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" data- data-\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>He said\u201cdeath is a temporary passage from man\u2019s hard work on earth to heaven,\u201d and said the deceased \u201cis everlasting joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He asked the family members to continue to pray for God\u2019s divine protection and not to grieve like people who have no hope.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 30, the whole of Takoradi was thrown into a state of shock when Mr. Ofori was found shot dead at his residence.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary checks showed that the suspect did not take anything from the house. However, it was later detected that the alleged killer took a laptop computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Mark Yaw Ofori President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday joined hundreds of people in Sekondi-Takoradi to mourn the Takoradi Constituency Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was killed at his resident. Mark Yaw Ofori was murdered in cold blood at his resident at Fijai, a suburb of Sekondi, by unidentified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761108","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>Akufo-Addo Mourns Slain NPP Treasurer - 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\/12\/09\/akufo-addo-mourns-slain-npp-treasurer\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Akufo-Addo Mourns Slain NPP Treasurer - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The late Mark Yaw Ofori President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday joined hundreds of people in Sekondi-Takoradi to mourn the Takoradi Constituency Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was killed at his resident. 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