{"id":1168069,"date":"2022-08-05T21:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/i-nearly-fainted-when-i-learnt-of-waakyes-death-bob-smith-jnr-diabolo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T21:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T21:07:57","slug":"i-nearly-fainted-when-i-learnt-of-waakyes-death-bob-smith-jnr-diabolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/i-nearly-fainted-when-i-learnt-of-waakyes-death-bob-smith-jnr-diabolo\/","title":{"rendered":"I nearly fainted when I learnt of Waakye&#8217;s death &#8211; Bob Smith Jnr (Diabolo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"I nearly fainted when I learnt of Waakye's death - Bob Smith Jnr (Diabolo)\" title=\"I nearly fainted when I learnt of Waakye's death - Bob Smith Jnr (Diabolo)\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Veteran actor, Bob Smith Jnr, popularly known as Diabolo, has said that he nearly fainted when he heard of the passing of his good friend and colleague Prince Yawson.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Hitz FM<\/strong> Friday, he said that although he knew the late actor, popularly known as Waakye, was ill, his death was a tough pill to swallow until he saw the deceased\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>Diabolo said that \u201cseriously, I nearly dropped, I nearly fainted. I told myself it was not true. I knew he was ill. On Monday morning, he was rushed to the hospital. First, to Korle-Bu, there were no beds for him. He went to Ridge, but it didn\u2019t work, and they went to 37 with his fianc\u00e9e.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncidentally, over there, they had a good reception. So, we all knew he was on admission and were preparing to go see him and see what we could do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHitz1039%2Fvideos%2F379906280956570%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The actor explained that they had called a couple of his friends to come to the actor\u2019s aid in case they needed a huge sum of money for his medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Smith said when he was on his way to the hospital, Waakye\u2019s fianc\u00e9e called to inform him of the actor\u2019s passing <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was devastated. I was sure that later in the day, they could say that it is not true. I needed to go there and see with my naked eye. I couldn\u2019t believe it because I thought something could be done about it. I seriously couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d Diabolo told Andy Dosty, host of the show.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, popularly known as Waakye, died on Tuesday, August 2 at the 37 Military Hospital after an illness.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away at the age of 52.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran actress, Grace Omaboe, popularly known as Maame Dokono, had narrated in an earlier interview how \u2018no bed syndrome\u2019 contributed to Waakye\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, Waakye was taken to Ridge Hospital but due to the lack of hospital beds, he was moved to the 37 Military Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the 37 Military Hospital, they also had no hospital beds so he was attended to on a stretcher. Before they got back with equipment to attend to him, he gave up the ghost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor, Bob Smith Jnr, popularly known as Diabolo, has said that he nearly fainted when he heard of the passing of his good friend and colleague Prince Yawson. Speaking on Hitz FM Friday, he said that although he knew the late actor, popularly known as Waakye, was ill, his death was a tough pill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[6062,371,22174,18795,2339,1323,3752,22099],"class_list":["post-1168069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-bob","tag-death","tag-diabolo","tag-fainted","tag-jnr","tag-learnt","tag-smith","tag-waakyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168069","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=1168069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}