{"id":207354,"date":"2016-04-17T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=207354"},"modified":"2016-04-17T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T06:32:41","slug":"mahama-gave-j-b-danquah-a-befitting-burial-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=207354","title":{"rendered":"Mahama gave J.B Danquah a befitting burial &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, has extended his gratitude to President Mahama for honouring the late J.B Danquah with a state burial.<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">\n<p>&#8220;We thank Mahama for giving J.B Danquah a befitting burial . We thank him very much for honouring our brother this way because JB [as he was affectionately called] deserved it,&#8221; Nana Addo said.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207360\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JBs-Funeral-5-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"JB's Funeral 5\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">Addressing mourners at the funeral of the late Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu on Saturday, Nana Addo described J.B Danquah as\u00a0a man of dignity and integrity.<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-207361 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JBs-Funeral-6.jpg\" alt=\"JB's Funeral 6\" width=\"764\" height=\"773\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">The National and regional leadership of the NDC and NPP, were all present to pay their last respects\u00a0to him.<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207362\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JBs-Funeral-7-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"JB's Funeral 7\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">\n<p>The former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North constituency was tragically murdered at his residence at Shiashie on February 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207358\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JBs-Funeral-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"JB's Funeral 2\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One person arrested in connection with the incident, Daniel Asiedu, is standing trial for murder.<\/p>\n<p>Three-day final funeral rites for the late MP began on Friday, April 15, as his body was laid in state at the Forecourt of the State House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-207465 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/31029459-4930-4fa9-b47d-b4f9159933be-1.jpg\" alt=\"31029459-4930-4fa9-b47d-b4f9159933be (1)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/div>\n<div class=\"a3s aXjCH\"><\/div>\n<div id=\":1bn\" class=\"ii gt m15420ef00b91e63a adP adO\"><\/div>\n<div id=\":145\" class=\"hq gt a10\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hq gt a10\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, has extended his gratitude to President Mahama for honouring the late J.B Danquah with a state burial. &#8220;We thank Mahama for giving J.B Danquah a befitting burial . We thank him very much for honouring our brother this way because JB [as he was affectionately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":143868,"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":[58,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207354","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=207354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}