{"id":739866,"date":"2022-01-07T23:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/big-loss-for-npp-ex-minister-and-regional-chairman-sadly-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:50:33","slug":"big-loss-for-npp-ex-minister-and-regional-chairman-sadly-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/big-loss-for-npp-ex-minister-and-regional-chairman-sadly-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Loss For NPP: Ex- Minister And Regional Chairman Sadly Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Deepest condolences to the Ashitey family on the passing of Mr. Ishmael Ashitey, who was an ex-Minister of State, former Tema East MP, and NPP regional chairman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">He has served as a Member of Parliament for Tema East on three consecutive occasions from 1996 to 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to party sources who confirmed that the astute politician, Mr. Ashitey, aged 68, returned from the United States a week ago after seeking medical treatment for an unknown illness.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports Mr. Ashitey was considering contesting for the National Chairmanship position of the NPP when the party elects National Officers later this year<\/p>\n<p>May Hon. Ishmael Ashitey&#8217;s soul rests in peace. The country has truly lost a respectful think tank who&#8217;s widely hailed for his assertiveness in making developmental policies in his constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party will be left with a big emptiness in their leadership for he served with passion and dexterity both for his constituents, party, and country respectively. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a figure that will be surely missed in the constituency and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>Rest well sir<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f318b344faf049a1bf26a771f260e647\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BATACH (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAshitey<br \/>\nNPP<br \/>\nTema East<br \/>\nUnited States<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepest condolences to the Ashitey family on the passing of Mr. Ishmael Ashitey, who was an ex-Minister of State, former Tema East MP, and NPP regional chairman. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Tema East on three consecutive occasions from 1996 to 2008. According to party sources who confirmed that the astute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739866","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=739866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}