{"id":132447,"date":"2020-04-30T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=132447"},"modified":"2020-05-04T05:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:40:05","slug":"radio-africa-ceo-patrick-quarcoo-loses-wife-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/radio-africa-ceo-patrick-quarcoo-loses-wife-to-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Africa CEO Patrick Quarcoo loses wife to cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News reaching us is that Patrick Quarcoo, the man who founded Radio Africa Group, has lost his wife to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>While the details are still scanty, a source who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal told <em>Ghafla<\/em> that his wife had been ailing for a long time before she passed away.<\/p>\n<p>She reportedly had stage 4 cancer and had been admitted at Nairobi Hospital where she gave up the ghost on Tuesday, April 28.<\/p>\n<p>Her death comes as a big blow since it is barely one month since Quarcoo lost one of his closest friends, former Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore to cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Bob-Collymore-and-his-friends-696x522-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-132490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Bob-Collymore-and-his-friends-696x522-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Bob-Collymore-and-his-friends-696x522-1.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Bob-Collymore-and-his-friends-696x522-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quarcoo, Collymore, Scangroup CEO Bharat Thakrar, Peter Kenneth, Nic Hailey, Aly Khan Satchu and KCB CEO had formed what they referred to as the a boy&#8217;s club before the latter died.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News reaching us is that Patrick Quarcoo, the man who founded Radio Africa Group, has lost his wife to cancer. While the details are still scanty, a source who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal told Ghafla that his wife had been ailing for a long time before she passed away. She reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6070,"featured_media":132465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[16836,18,125803,125804],"class_list":["post-132447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bob-collymore-news","tag-ghafla-news","tag-patrick-quarcoo-news","tag-radio-africa-group-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132492,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132447\/revisions\/132492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}