{"id":291245,"date":"2017-02-04T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291245"},"modified":"2017-02-04T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:17:42","slug":"bawumia-pays-tribute-to-late-aide-kwabena-boadu-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291245","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia pays tribute to late aide Kwabena Boadu [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has paid an emotional tribute to his late Press Secretary, Kwabena Boadu, \u00a0who was buried today\u00a0[Saturday] February 4, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena&#8217;s burial service was held at the forecourt of the State House, where mourners filed past his body.<\/p>\n<p>The Thirty-year old was later buried at the Achimota Cemetery in Accra. Hundreds of mourners from across the country, mostly members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), attended the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering a tribute to a young man who had worked with him since 2011, \u00a0Dr. Bawumia overcome with emotion, described his late aide as a\u00a0brilliant and hardworking man.<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena Boadu was found dead in his hotel room in Wa, Upper West Region, whilst on the campaign trail ahead of the 2016\u00a0general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, popularly called KB, was reportedly electrocuted in his hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to Dr. Bawumia&#8217;s tribute below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306105127&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has paid an emotional tribute to his late Press Secretary, Kwabena Boadu, \u00a0who was buried today\u00a0[Saturday] February 4, 2017. Kwabena&#8217;s burial service was held at the forecourt of the State House, where mourners filed past his body. The Thirty-year old was later buried at the Achimota Cemetery in Accra. Hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[5],"tags":[389,880,3,3740,56],"class_list":["post-291245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bawumia","tag-funeral","tag-ghana-news","tag-kwabena-boadu","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291245","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=291245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}