{"id":1255277,"date":"2022-11-21T19:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/21\/ghana-has-lost-an-exceptional-public-servant-president-akufo-addo-on-prof-kwesi-botchweys-death\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:39:36","slug":"ghana-has-lost-an-exceptional-public-servant-president-akufo-addo-on-prof-kwesi-botchweys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/21\/ghana-has-lost-an-exceptional-public-servant-president-akufo-addo-on-prof-kwesi-botchweys-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana has lost an &#8216;exceptional public servant&#8217; &#8211; President Akufo-Addo on Prof Kwesi Botchwey&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The death of my good friend, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, is a very sad development.<\/p>\n<p>My contemporary, in the mid-1960s, at the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Botchwey was a longstanding public servant, who discharged his duties thoughtfully and with dignity, and became Ghana\u2019s longest-serving Minister for Finance and Economic Planning.<\/p>\n<p>The thoughts and sympathies of my wife, Rebecca, the First Lady, and I are with his partner, children and family.<\/p>\n<p>I extend my deepest condolences to them, and also to the National Democratic Congress, of which he was a prominent and much respected member.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has lost a fine gentleman and exceptional public servant.<\/p>\n<p>May his soul rest in perfect peace in the Bosom of the Almighty until the Last Day of the Resurrection when we shall all meet again. Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"0d8c87671eba92a6a2650809-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"0d8c87671eba92a6a2650809-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of my good friend, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, is a very sad development. My contemporary, in the mid-1960s, at the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Botchwey was a longstanding public servant, who discharged his duties thoughtfully and with dignity, and became Ghana\u2019s longest-serving Minister for Finance and Economic Planning. The thoughts and sympathies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255277","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\/1255277","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=1255277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}