{"id":2010,"date":"2024-01-18T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2024-01-18T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:30:12","slug":"ex-ghana-defense-minister-mark-woyongo-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Ghana Defense Minister Mark Woyongo Dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Minister of Defence, Mark Owen Woyongo, has passed away at the age of 74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Woyongo family, headed by Mr. Awini Zinge, confirmed his death in a statement on Thursday, January 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central died on Wednesday, January 17, at the Bank of Ghana Hospital in Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Woyongo entered politics in the 2008 Ghanaian parliamentary election as a candidate of the National Democratic Congress, securing 41.7% of the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Unfortunately, he lost to Joseph Kofi Adda of the New Patriotic Party by 1,130 votes (3.5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this setback, he was appointed the Upper East Regional Minister by President Mills in 2009 and retained the position under President Mahama after the passing of Mills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2013, President Mahama nominated him for the role of Minister for Defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of Defence, Mark Owen Woyongo, has passed away at the age of 74. The Woyongo family, headed by Mr. Awini Zinge, confirmed his death in a statement on Thursday, January 18. The former Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central died on Wednesday, January 17, at the Bank of Ghana Hospital in Accra. Woyongo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-ex-ghana-defense-minister-mark-woyongo-dies-at-74"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}