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<\/p>\nFormer President John Mahama, has joined Ghanaians to eulogize the late Asempa FM presenter,\u00a0Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong, popularly known\u00a0as KABA.<\/p>\n
John Mahama, who encountered the journalist many times while serving in office, said he was shocked to receive the news about his passing.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post on Saturday evening, John Mahama expressed his condolence to the family of the former broadcaster and the media fraternity.<\/p>\n
“A sad day for us all.\u00a0Received the shocking news of the passing of KABA.\u00a0My condolences to the family, MBG and the media fraternity,” he posted on his Facebook wall.<\/p>\n
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The host of Asempa FM\u2019s\u00a0late\u00a0afternoon political show, \u2018Eko Sii Sen\u2019 passed away during the early hours of Saturday, November 18, 2017.<\/p>\n
The cause of his sudden death is unclear, but there are reports he may have suffered some form of attack from a health condition.<\/p>\n
A statement from his employers, Multimedia Group, said their Chief Executive Officer, Kwasi Twum, led management and staff of the Group to his residence shortly after the news of his death.<\/p>\n
About KABA<\/strong><\/p>\n KABA has been with Asempa FM since 2008. Prior to joining the Multimedia Group, KABA had worked with Top Radio from 2004 \u2013 2008.<\/p>\n The broadcaster was a trained teacher at the University of Cape Coast after which he moved to the Ghana Institute of Journalism for Communications Studies.<\/p>\n He later enrolled at the University of Ghana to study Political Science. KABA had also hosted Adom TV\u2019s Morning Show on Multi TV.<\/p>\n The ace broadcaster, was among a group of selected senior journalists, who joined the President at the Flagstaff House this year, to ask him questions about critical national issues.<\/p>\n He married Valentina Ofori Afriyie [in June 2016], a staff of Accra-based Class FM, who had moved from Radio Gold.<\/p>\n They welcomed their first baby girl a few months ago.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former President John Mahama, has joined Ghanaians to eulogize the late Asempa FM presenter,\u00a0Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong, popularly known\u00a0as KABA. John Mahama, who encountered the journalist many times while serving in office, said he was shocked to receive the news about his passing. In a Facebook post on Saturday evening, John Mahama expressed his condolence to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":375117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,8169,14720],"class_list":["post-375116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-kaba","tag-mahama-mouns-kaba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375116","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}