{"id":399981,"date":"2018-02-09T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399981"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:01:55","slug":"ghana-was-blessed-to-have-my-queen-ebonys-dad-pays-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399981","title":{"rendered":"Ghana was blessed to have my queen \u2013 Ebony\u2019s dad pays tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father of Dancehall artiste Ebony, Nana Poku Kwarteng, has paid tribute to his late daughter, describing her as a splendid personality with a unique talent.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Poku, who last spoke to Ebony on Wednesday, learned of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/09\/dancehall-diva-ebony-dead-in-car-crash\/\">the passing<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of his 20-year-old daughter in a car accident at Mankranso in the Ashanti Region around 4:00 am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I should describe my girl, I\u2019ll say she was amazing, splendid, so unique. Ghana is going to find it tough to find someone like this pretty queen,\u201d he said to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>&#8216; Kwame Dadzie.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Poku recalled his support for Ebony&#8217;s music career despite the criticism that came her way for her salacious persona and fashion sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always supported this queen, that was her talent. She had nothing to lose. I supported her all the time. I have always supported my queen\u2026 she had it all. Honestly, she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399984\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebony.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebony-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ebony, whose real name is Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, was returning from Sunyani after visiting her mother\u00a0 who had returned from the UK, when the Jeep she was travelling in crashed into a VIP bus on Thursday evening, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony was travelling with three other people, two of whom have also been confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Jeep survived the crash, but most recent reports indicate that he is still unconscious and receiving\u00a0treatment.<\/p>\n<p>On his daughter&#8217;s trip to Sunyani, Nana Poku noted that \u201cshe [Ebony] said she was going to see her mom. Her mom had returned from the UK and she needed to her. I said okay and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is yet to speak to any of Ebony&#8217;s family in Sunyani, as he indicated that he was not in the right state of mind to even pick phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026My mood would not permit me to do so [pick up phone calls]. I have someone here who responds to any call I receive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of Dancehall artiste Ebony, Nana Poku Kwarteng, has paid tribute to his late daughter, describing her as a splendid personality with a unique talent. Nana Poku, who last spoke to Ebony on Wednesday, learned of the passing of his 20-year-old daughter in a car accident at Mankranso in the Ashanti Region around 4:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":399997,"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":[137,11],"tags":[15664,3,16947],"class_list":["post-399981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","category-top-stories","tag-ebony","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-poku-kwarteng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399981","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=399981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}