{"id":1029466,"date":"2022-03-21T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/21\/kenpong-consoles-kufuor-over-sisters-death\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:16:28","slug":"kenpong-consoles-kufuor-over-sisters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/21\/kenpong-consoles-kufuor-over-sisters-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenpong Consoles Kufuor Over Sister\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kenpong (far left) sitting behind ex-President Kufuor and other Apagya family members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BUSINESS MOGUL, Kennedy Agyapong, aka \u2018Kenpong\u2019, has prayed to God to strengthen the Apagya family of Kumasi over the loss of a prominent family member.<\/p>\n<p>The late Rebecca Akosua Addo Dodoo, who was 92 years old, and a sister of ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor, died some months ago, but was buried on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kenpong, who is very popular in the country, travelled from his base in Accra to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, to support the bereaved family in these trying moments.<\/p>\n<p>The business magnate, who truly respects traditions and culture, went round the funeral grounds at Apagyafie in Kumasi to shake hands with some prominent people.<\/p>\n<p>Kenpong was seen virtually on his knees as he shook hands with the Otumfuo and Apagyahene, Nana Owusu Afriyie, who is the head of the Apagya family of Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman was also seen consoling former President Kufuor, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, aka \u2018Napo\u2019, the Energy Minister and other Apagya family members.<\/p>\n<p>Kenpong, whose popularity extends across the country, at the end of the funeral rites, was seen being followed by a crowd of mourners, who chanted his name.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman, it would be recalled, shot to fame after he joined the management of two times Africa Champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenpong (far left) sitting behind ex-President Kufuor and other Apagya family members BUSINESS MOGUL, Kennedy Agyapong, aka \u2018Kenpong\u2019, has prayed to God to strengthen the Apagya family of Kumasi over the loss of a prominent family member. The late Rebecca Akosua Addo Dodoo, who was 92 years old, and a sister of ex-President John Agyekum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1029467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3502,371,4083,6407,6408],"class_list":["post-1029466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-consoles","tag-death","tag-kenpong","tag-kufuor","tag-sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}