The Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public-Private Partnerships, Rashid Pelpuo, has called on the state to organize a befitting state burial to honor the memory of the late Paul Victor Obeng.<\/p>\n
\u201cA state burial is a logical thing to do for such a rare character in the Ghanaian society,\u201d he told Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n PV Obeng died on Saturday after he suffered an asthma attack while driving towards his home on the Spintex road, Accra.<\/p>\n He served as the Senior Presidential advisor to the President, John Mahama.<\/p>\n Several politicians and government officials have been paying glowing tribute to the late Obeng.<\/p>\n Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> after paying a short visit to the late senor Presidential advisor\u2019s house, Mr Pelpuo lauded Mr. Obeng\u2019s role in national development and described him as a veteran in Ghanaian politics<\/p>\n \u201cOnce a Minister, once a Presidential Advisor and now a Presidential Advisor, he has always been at one point, was always there for the Presidents since the Presidency of Jerry Rawlings, Atta Mills and at a point became the Prime Minister of this country.<\/p>\n He therefore recommended a state burial to serve as a befitting testament to P.V. Obeng\u2019s legacy as a true statesman<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public-Private Partnerships, Rashid Pelpuo, has called on the state to organize a befitting state burial to honor the memory of the late Paul Victor Obeng. \u201cA state burial is a logical thing to do for such a rare character in the Ghanaian society,\u201d he told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19669,"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":[2,5],"tags":[879,792],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-burial","tag-mahama-ayariga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}