{"id":739959,"date":"2022-01-08T02:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/bawumia-reacts-to-death-of-npp-stalwart-ishmael-ashitey\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T02:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:09:46","slug":"bawumia-reacts-to-death-of-npp-stalwart-ishmael-ashitey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/bawumia-reacts-to-death-of-npp-stalwart-ishmael-ashitey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia reacts to death of NPP stalwart Ishmael Ashitey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  8 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28611740.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ishmael Ashitey died on January 7, 2022\" title=\"Ishmael Ashitey died on January 7, 2022\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ishmael Ashitey died on January 7, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has swiftly reacted to the death of former Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Dr. Bawumia extended his condolences to the family of the former Tema East MP, adding that his thoughts were with them during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My 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. My thoughts are with them at this difficult period,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Veep also wished the late Mr. Ashitey well as he journeys home to meet his maker. &#8220;May Hon. Ishmael Ashitey&#8217;s soul rest in peace,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>His death<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Ishmael Ashitey was reported dead on Friday, January 7, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of his death is not immediately know, however, a family source told Ghanaguardian.com that he did not show signs of ailments.<\/p>\n<p>The source disclosed he passed on the Maritime Hospital in Tema.<\/p>\n<p>He was married and had 4 children.<\/p>\n<p>He died aged 67.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMBawumia%2Fposts%2F4750828901676748&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 8 January 2022 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2022-01-08 Ishmael Ashitey died on January 7, 2022 Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has swiftly reacted to the death of former Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey. In a Facebook post, Dr. Bawumia extended his condolences to the family of the former Tema East MP, adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739959","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=739959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}