{"id":216171,"date":"2016-05-21T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216171"},"modified":"2016-05-21T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:21:10","slug":"abetifi-mp-peter-wiafe-peprah-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/05\/abetifi-mp-peter-wiafe-peprah-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Abetifi MP Peter Wiafe Pepera dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Abetifi Constituency in the Eastern Region, Peter Wiafe Pepera, has died.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP reportedly died on Saturday afternoon at the 37 Military Hospital where he was on admission.<\/p>\n<p>His colleague Member of Parliament who spoke to<strong> citifmonline.com\u00a0<\/strong>but wishes to remain anonymous confirmed his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports say he suffered from a cardiac arrest. The 62-year old MP was once a minister in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration before joining the NPP in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>He was a Ranking Member on the Trade and Industry Committee in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The late MP celebrated his 62nd birthday on May 9, and died today, [Saturday], May 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216182\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-216182\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MP-2.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Wiafe-Peprah has been described as a fun-loving person.\" width=\"393\" height=\"393\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Wiafe-Peprah has been described as a fun-loving person.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He becomes the second NPP MP to have died in the Eastern Region, after Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, who was <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/09\/im-saddened-by-jb-danquahs-death-kufuor\/\">stabbed to death <\/a><\/strong><\/span>at his home in Accra in February.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2015, NDC MP for Amenfi West in the Western Region<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/13\/amenfi-west-mp-john-gyetua-dead\/\"> John Gyetua also died<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra after a protracted illness.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfanyiDadzie\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AfanyiDadzie<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Abetifi Constituency in the Eastern Region, Peter Wiafe Pepera, has died. 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