{"id":777675,"date":"2020-01-07T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/07\/rawlings-minister-dies\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:56:48","slug":"rawlings-minister-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/07\/rawlings-minister-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings Minister Dies –"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Esther Lilly Nkansah<\/strong><\/p>\n

A former
\nWestern Regional Minister in the erstwhile Jerry John Rawlings\u2019 National Democratic
\nCongress (NDC) government, Esther Lilly Nkansah, has passed on. She was 71.<\/p>\n

The late
\nformer regional minister who was ill for a while died while receiving treatment
\nat the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi in December 2019.<\/p>\n

Japheth
\nBaidoo, Western Regional Organizer of the NDC, confirmed the sad story and said
\nfuneral rites for the late former minister would be held from February 7 to 9,
\n2020.<\/p>\n

The late
\nEsther Lily Nkansah was a lawyer and the last Western Regional minister to
\nserve under the Rawlings\u2019 administration from 1997 to 2000.<\/p>\n

In 2010, she
\nwas named in a 10-member board of Bank of Ghana by former President John Atta
\nMills to assist the government with its \u2018Better Ghana Agenda\u2019<\/p>\n

From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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