{"id":4624,"date":"2024-04-06T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2024-04-06T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T11:48:30","slug":"krachi-east-mce-collapses-and-dies-while-giving-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"Krachi East MCE collapses and dies while giving speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Bernard Aborkugya Mensah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Krachi East, has died after a year in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Ghana News Agency report said the MCE was delivering a matriculation speech at the Dambai College of Education Friday morning when he collapsed and was rushed to the Dambai Health Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was later referred to the WoraWora Government Hospital for further treatment but was pronounced dead on arrival at the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hospital authorities are, however, tight-lipped on the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kingsley Okuneggy, Krachi East New Patriotic Party Communication Officer, confirmed the incident on the party\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deceased, 60, was nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to replace the late MCE, Francis Kofi Okesu, who died in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Mensah was a former Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party in the Krachi East Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A close source disclosed to the GNA that the deceased\u2019s wife also collapsed on hearing the news and is currently on admission at the same facility at WoraWora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Bernard Aborkugya Mensah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Krachi East, has died after a year in office. A Ghana News Agency report said the MCE was delivering a matriculation speech at the Dambai College of Education Friday morning when he collapsed and was rushed to the Dambai Health Centre. He was later referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1520,1213],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-krachi-east","tag-mce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}