{"id":1195996,"date":"2022-08-31T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/playback-baffour-osei-akoto-remembered-20-years-on\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:49:33","slug":"playback-baffour-osei-akoto-remembered-20-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/playback-baffour-osei-akoto-remembered-20-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Playback: Baffour Osei Akoto remembered 20 years on"},"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=\"Playback: Baffour Osei Akoto remembered 20 years on\" title=\"Playback: Baffour Osei Akoto remembered 20 years on\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Late statesman, Baffour Osei Akoto is being remembered 20 years on.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baffuor Osei Akoto contributed, advocated, and propelled the establishment of democracy in the country. He was among prominent politicians who opposed the dictatorial rule of the Nkrumah government. He fought alongside Dr. J.B. Danquah of Kyebi to oppose Nkrumah\u2019s authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n<p>The event is happening at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS).<\/p>\n<p>Mr Afriyie Akoto, Agric Minister, Alan Kyeremanten, Paul Okyere Darko among others are present at the remembrance ceremony.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"VxnZUo4G_EQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joy News Live\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VxnZUo4G_EQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late statesman, Baffour Osei Akoto is being remembered 20 years on. Mr Baffuor Osei Akoto contributed, advocated, and propelled the establishment of democracy in the country. He was among prominent politicians who opposed the dictatorial rule of the Nkrumah government. He fought alongside Dr. J.B. Danquah of Kyebi to oppose Nkrumah\u2019s authoritarian rule. The event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7182,2556,512,22141,3547,1151],"class_list":["post-1195996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akoto","tag-baffour","tag-osei","tag-playback","tag-remembered","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195996","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=1195996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}