{"id":1170741,"date":"2022-08-08T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/npp-flags-fly-at-half-mast-for-a-week-in-honour-of-former-chairman\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:59:42","slug":"npp-flags-fly-at-half-mast-for-a-week-in-honour-of-former-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/npp-flags-fly-at-half-mast-for-a-week-in-honour-of-former-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP flags fly at half-mast for a week in honour of former Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"641\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Late-Harona-Esseku_1140x1050-696x641.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"-Late-Harona-Esseku_1140x1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The <strong>New Patriotic Party<\/strong> (NPP) has directed that all party flags must fly at half-mast following the death of its former Chairman, <strong>Harona Esseku<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Esseku died on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, aged 88. <\/p>\n<p>The exercise is expected to last for the next 7 days in honour of Mr Esseku.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Patriotic Party, NPP has received with grief, news of the passing of Hon. Haruna Esseku, a statesman and a founding member of the Party, which sad event occurred on Wednesday, August 3, 2022,\u201d the statement read in parts. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>This was announced in a statement signed by the General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua which described the death as a\u00a0<em>huge loss<\/em> to the party and by extension Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarona Esseku\u2019s contributions to the Danquah-Busia-Dombo political tradition and Ghana at large cannot be overemphasized. His passing is, therefore, a huge loss to both the NPP and the country. We have, indeed, lost a father, mentor and colossus,\u201d the party eulogised.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was a Minister of Transport and Communications within the Second Republic.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Awutu-Effutu-Senya Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The late politician was honoured with the Order of the Star of Ghana award by former President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large td-caption-align-https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-156.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-156-773x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2146987\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LbChSJ4Abzg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbChSJ4Abzg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed that all party flags must fly at half-mast following the death of its former Chairman, Harona Esseku. Mr Esseku died on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, aged 88. The exercise is expected to last for the next 7 days in honour of Mr Esseku. \u201cThe New Patriotic Party, NPP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[4159,5213,2837,22714,7258,7025,602],"class_list":["post-1170741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-chairman","tag-flags","tag-fly","tag-halfmast","tag-honour","tag-npp","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170741","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=1170741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}