{"id":326526,"date":"2017-06-08T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326526"},"modified":"2017-06-08T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:35:03","slug":"tribute-to-major-mahama-by-capt-prince-karl-abanah-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326526","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Major Mahama by Capt. Prince Karl Abanah [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\">As Ghanaians grieve over the horrendous murder of the late officer of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Infantry Battalion, Major Maxwell Mahama, tributes have been pouring in from sympathizers to pay their last respect to the young promising soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Tributes were received from the President of the Nation, Nana Addo, former Presidents, Security Services, Religious and Civil Society Organizations as well as celebrities in the entertainment industry including popular Dance Hall Artist, Shata Wale, who even composed a song in his memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Of all the deluge of tributes, a poem written by one of the close friends of the deceased in the Ghana Armed Forces, Captain Prince Karl Abanah, which went viral on social media, got most readers reacting to it emotionally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">His skillfully written\u00a0but sad piece, portrays\u00a0the lamentation of the late captain to his\u00a0mother, explaining how he was slayed by the very people he was asked by his nation to defend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0A <span class=\"il\">level<\/span> <span class=\"il\">100<\/span> Theater Arts student of the University of Education Winneba, Priscilla Alswell Akpablie, in sharing in the nationwide grieving, decided to recite the poem written by the late Captain\u2019s friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">The deceased was lynched and partly burnt by some youth of Denenkyira-Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region on Monday, May 29, 2017, on suspicion that he was an armed robber. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">The family has announced Friday, June 9, 2017, as the burial date of their fallen son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to the recited poem below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/327127865&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: Priscilla\u00a0Alswell Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":1xr\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ghanaians grieve over the horrendous murder of the late officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, Major Maxwell Mahama, tributes have been pouring in from sympathizers to pay their last respect to the young promising soldier. Tributes were received from the President of the Nation, Nana Addo, former Presidents, Security Services, Religious and Civil Society [&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":[3],"class_list":["post-326526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326526","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=326526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}