{"id":19298,"date":"2014-05-18T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=19298"},"modified":"2014-05-18T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T09:47:50","slug":"ghana-will-miss-pv-obengs-good-counsel-dr-nduom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=19298","title":{"rendered":"Ghana will miss PV Obeng\u2019s good counsel \u2013 Dr. Nduom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom says Ghana, in its current state where there is a desperate need for the good counsel of statesmen and women will miss the late Paul Victor Obeng.<\/p>\n<p>A post on his Facebook page said: \u201cHe will be missed especially during this period in our nation when we need unity of purpose and when we have a desperate need for statesmen and women to stop forward and pull all our efforts in the same direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nduom remarked that Ghana has lost one of its long serving public servants.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that he was not present in the country \u201cwhen he [PV Obeng] was with the PNDC administration. I knew him post-PNDC and to me, he was a kind, civil and hardworking person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PV Obeng died on Saturday of suspected asthma attack.<\/p>\n<p>He was the senior advisor to the President, John Mahama, and the chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom says Ghana, in its current state where there is a desperate need for the good counsel of statesmen and women will miss the late Paul Victor Obeng. A post on his Facebook page said: \u201cHe will be missed especially during this period in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19299,"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":[5],"tags":[118,793,43,792,38,807],"class_list":["post-19298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-bank-of-ghana","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-mahama-ayariga","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-vocational-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}