{"id":2966,"date":"2017-11-01T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2017-11-01T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:10:52","slug":"awurama-badu-deserves-state-burial-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/awurama-badu-deserves-state-burial-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Awurama Badu Deserves State Burial &#8211; Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ceaser Ohene Karikari, son of legendary highlife musician Awurama Badu has some sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>He is of the opinion that his late mother, Awurama Badu deserves a state funeral and burial.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Karikari said he agrees with critics who believe that the \u2018Medofo Adaade Me\u2019 singer needs the funeral organised by the state to honour her.<\/p>\n<p>He made these statements while speaking with Zionfelix on Brunch2Lunch.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Awurama has entertained Ghanaians for years. Therefore, it will be right for the country to honour her with such a prestigious ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Ceaser said he will not force the government to organise the funeral. However, he and the family would be happy if the government took the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Awurama Badu died on Thursday, October 26, 2017 evening around 6:30 leaving behind four children \u2013 two males and two females.<\/p>\n<p>Ceaser Ohene Karikari disclosed that the One-Week celebration for the musician comes off on Friday, November 3 at Effiduase Banko in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceaser Ohene Karikari, son of legendary highlife musician Awurama Badu has some sentiments. He is of the opinion that his late mother, Awurama Badu deserves a state funeral and burial. Mr Karikari said he agrees with critics who believe that the \u2018Medofo Adaade Me\u2019 singer needs the funeral organised by the state to honour her. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":2967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}