{"id":336125,"date":"2017-07-13T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336125"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:30:58","slug":"nana-addo-mahama-others-commiserate-with-kotoko-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336125","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo, Mahama, others commiserate with Kotoko after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has said he is saddened by last night&#8217;s [Wednesday] fatal motor crash involving the Kumasi Asante Kotoko team that has left <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/13\/kotoko-teams-equipment-officer-confirmed-dead\/\"><strong>one person dead<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He has also wished the injured who are still receiving medical attention a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336168\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kotoko-crash.jpg\" alt=\"kotoko-crash\" width=\"585\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The President conveyed these sentiments in a tweet on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Mahama also joined other Ghanaians to commiserate with <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/13\/kotoko-bus-crashes-one-feared-dead-coach-players-injured\/\"><strong>Kumasi Asante Kotoko<\/strong><\/a><\/span> after the fatal accident on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-284592\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mahama-very-sad.jpg\" alt=\"mahama-very-sad\" width=\"502\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Mahama, who is a fan of Division 1 side, Real Tamale United (RTU) posted on his Facebook timeline that, \u201cLet&#8217;s remember Asante Kotoko S.C. in our prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336126\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kotoko-accident-3.jpg\" alt=\"kotoko-accident-3\" width=\"476\" height=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s bus ran into a stationary KIA truck close to Nsawam in the Eastern Region, \u00a0leaving all passengers on board with various degrees of injury and one person dead.<\/p>\n<p>After news of the incident broke, many have taken to various social media platforms to commiserate with the team which was returning to their base in Kumasi from Accra after a Premier League game.<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan posted via his Twitter handle that his thoughts and prayers were with the management of the team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336128\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kotoko-accident-2.jpg\" alt=\"kotoko-accident-2\" width=\"588\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy thoughts and prayers are with the management, playing body and the supporters of Kumasi Asante Kotoko on this fatal accident,\u201d he tweeted few hours after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Archrivals of Kumasi Asante Kotoko SC, Accra Hearts of Oak also in a tweet said, \u201cPlease, please, please, GOD! Do not let this news we are hearing about our brothers Asante Kotoko be true. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PrayForKotoko?src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\">#PrayForKotoko<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TogetherWeStand?src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\">#TogetherWeStand<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336127\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kotoko-accident.jpg\" alt=\"kotoko-accident\" width=\"587\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It also said, \u201cWe are extremely sullen and crestfallen to learn about this tragedy. Our prayers are with you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pray4Kotoko?src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\">#Pray4Kotoko<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also changed the name of their account to #PrayforKotoko.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has said he is saddened by last night&#8217;s [Wednesday] fatal motor crash involving the Kumasi Asante Kotoko team that has left one person dead. He has also wished the injured who are still receiving medical attention a speedy recovery. The President conveyed these sentiments in a tweet on Thursday morning. Former President John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":135096,"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":[142],"tags":[3,128,9223,5473],"class_list":["post-336125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ghana-news","tag-john-mahama","tag-kotoko-crash","tag-kumasi-asante-kotoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336125","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=336125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}