{"id":303226,"date":"2017-03-20T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=303226"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:13:37","slug":"bawumia-visits-kintampo-falls-after-disaster-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=303226","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia visits Kintampo falls after disaster [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, is in the Brong Ahafo Region at the Kintampo Waterfalls following the tragic accident on Sunday, which claimed 18 lives and left\u00a022 injured.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the Vice President were the Interior, National Security and Tourism Ministers, as well as the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303239 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bawumia-Kintampo-falls-disaster-4.jpg\" alt=\"bawumia-kintampo-falls-disaster-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303237\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bawumia-Kintampo-falls-disaster-2.jpg\" alt=\"bawumia-kintampo-falls-disaster-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press, Dr. Bawumia described the accident as a major loss not only for the Brong Ahafo Region but for all of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bereavement in which we have lost 18 young men and women in the prime of their lives\u2026 we have lost them under very tragic circumstances. We will have to continue to pray for their souls as we mourn for their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot understand. These things are very difficult to understand. So we will allow the necessary investigation to take place whilst we try to see what we can do for the families,\u201d the Vice President added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303254 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bawumia.jpg\" alt=\"bawumia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303236\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bawumia-Kintampo-falls-disaster-1.jpg\" alt=\"bawumia-kintampo-falls-disaster-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The deceased and injured persons were students of the Wenchi Senior High School, and the\u00a0University of Energy and Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=qzQhEfadgu:303182:2934:13:::sidebar:58cfc3512903c0-35417091\">accident occurred<\/a><\/strong><\/span> after a huge tree run off the top of the waterfall following strong winds, falling onto the scores of revellers swimming beneath the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President-led delegation later visited the Kintampo Hospital where Dr. Bawumia donated an undisclosed amount of money to the\u00a0University of Energy and Natural Resources students on admission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Mashoud Kombat\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, is in the Brong Ahafo Region at the Kintampo Waterfalls following the tragic accident on Sunday, which claimed 18 lives and left\u00a022 injured. Accompanying the Vice President were the Interior, National Security and Tourism Ministers, as well as the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister. Addressing the press, Dr. Bawumia described the [&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":[10,11],"tags":[389,3,5299],"class_list":["post-303226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-kintampo-waterfall-disaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303226","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=303226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}