{"id":1253968,"date":"2022-11-19T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/former-finance-minister-kwesi-botchwey-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T11:31:10","slug":"former-finance-minister-kwesi-botchwey-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/former-finance-minister-kwesi-botchwey-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/47e8e37212562f791949822e301e88ca13628bc6-800x800-1-1024x922.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Ghana\u2019s former Minister of Finance, Professor Kwesi Botchwey is dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to unimpeachable sources, the erstwhile NDC appointee died on Saturday, November 19, 2021, after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>This sad incident happened at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, where he was receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his demise, he was a key member of the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress, having played an integral role in the evolution of the NDC, from its PNDC era.<\/p>\n<p>He died at age 80.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; overflow:hidden;margin:20px auto; width:100%; min-height:280px;\">\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s former Minister of Finance, Professor Kwesi Botchwey is dead. According to unimpeachable sources, the erstwhile NDC appointee died on Saturday, November 19, 2021, after a short illness. This sad incident happened at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, where he was receiving treatment. Prior to his demise, he was a key member of the Council of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253968","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=1253968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}