{"id":118038,"date":"2015-05-21T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=118038"},"modified":"2015-05-21T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:56:28","slug":"clashes-at-bolga-hospital-over-death-of-npp-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=118038","title":{"rendered":"Clashes at Bolga Hospital over death of NPP chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three Upper East regional executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) \u00a0were attacked on Thursday at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital when they went to commiserate with the family of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/21\/npp-upper-east-chairman-attacked-with-acid\/#sthash.qGe7xBu8.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">\u00a0the late regional chairman<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, Adams Mahama who died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their vehicles were smashed by some angry youth who accused the executives of feuding with the chairman before his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are wondering why the executives are showing concern over the death of the chairman after his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The timely intervention of a combined team of military and Policemen averted what could have been a bloody clash at the hospital.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117982\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-117982\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP1.jpg\" alt=\"Some sympathizers wailing over the death of Mahama Adams\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some sympathizers wailing over the death of Mahama Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A constituency executive of the party in the region, confirmed the incident to <strong>Citi News <\/strong>on condition of anonymity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victims include both the first Vice Chairman of the party in the region, the Navrongo constituency and Bolgatanga constituency chairmen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some unknown persons poured acid on the Upper East Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mahama Adams yesterday and died from his injuries this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-117981\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP.jpg\" alt=\"UE NPP\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UE-NPP-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His death <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/21\/confirmed-npp-ue-chairman-dead-after-acid-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">was confirmed by his relative<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and son of the Late Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Farouk Mahama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>,\u00a0Farouk Mahama said: \u201cI am with a heavy heart this morning, Adams, our only surviving hope in the family is gone and we are very sad and we are all in shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Upper East regional executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) \u00a0were attacked on Thursday at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital when they went to commiserate with the family of \u00a0the late regional chairman, Adams Mahama who died at the hospital. Their vehicles were smashed by some angry youth who accused the executives of feuding with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":118042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-118038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}