{"id":32472,"date":"2018-04-30T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=32472"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:48:50","slug":"sad-jewel-ackah-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/sad-jewel-ackah-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad! Jewel Ackah Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jewel Ackah passes away.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian highlife legend, Jewel is dead. Furthermore, the legend died at 73 years old. Ackah had been battling illness for a while now. Moreover, he\u00a0gave up the ghost late on Friday, April 27th 2018.<\/p>\n<h4>About Jewel Ackah&#8217;s circumstances around death<\/h4>\n<p>Ackah built a staggering career in his early days. However, he became known for composing hit songs for the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>After he fell ill he struggled to take care of himself. Therefore, he publicly accused the NDC of neglecting him.<\/p>\n<p>He was known to have been battling stroke and other sicknesses for about a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Several personalities and groups, including an NDC group and Nana Appiah Mensah, CEO of Zylofon Media, had made donations for the veteran musician\u2019s upkeep and medical care.<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewel Ackah passes away. Ghanaian highlife legend, Jewel is dead. Furthermore, the legend died at 73 years old. Ackah had been battling illness for a while now. Moreover, he\u00a0gave up the ghost late on Friday, April 27th 2018. About Jewel Ackah&#8217;s circumstances around death Ackah built a staggering career in his early days. However, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":32479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32472","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\/32472","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=32472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32480,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472\/revisions\/32480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}