{"id":197941,"date":"2016-03-10T18:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=197941"},"modified":"2016-03-10T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:36:17","slug":"mahama-nana-addo-attend-bantamahenes-funeral-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=197941","title":{"rendered":"Mahama, Nana Addo, attend Bantamahene&#8217;s funeral [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama and Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, are in Bantama in the Ashanti Region, to pay their last respect to the late Chief of the town, Baffuor Asare Owusu Amankwatia V.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also in attendance is the Asantehene,\u00a0Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.\u00a0President John Mahama donated GHc20,000 and assorted drinks towards the funeral.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197949 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-4-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (4)\" width=\"620\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bantamahene kicked the bucket in January this year, after a short illness and will be buried later in the night in line with tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197948 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-3-1024x611.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (3)\" width=\"620\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The late Bantamahene was the traditional warlord of the Asantehene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197951 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-6-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (6)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He ascended to the throne in 2002 after the death of the former chief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197946 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (1)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other dignitaries at the funeral included former Chairman of the NPP, Paul Afoko, comedian Agya Koo, NPP\u2019s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Antwi Bosiako among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197947 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (2)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197952 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-7-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (7)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197953 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-8-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (8)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197955 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (10)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-197954 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bantama-funeral-9-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"bantama funeral (9)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama and Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, are in Bantama in the Ashanti Region, to pay their last respect to the late Chief of the town, Baffuor Asare Owusu Amankwatia V. Also in attendance is the Asantehene,\u00a0Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.\u00a0President John Mahama donated GHc20,000 and assorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197941","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}