Apologize for ‘insulting’ Okyenhene – Youth group to Stan Dogbe

A group known as the Okyeman Youth Association, has asked Stan Dogbe, a former presidential staffer, to apologize to the Okyenhene for supposedly insulting the King over his comments on the death of former Vice President of Ghana, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur.

Mr. Dogbe in a Facebook post, told the Okyenhene to stop the “recklessness of seeking cheap popularity by going to public events and seeking to share coloured stories” in reference to the King’s narration which suggested that Mr. Amissah Arthur, who had collapsed at the Airforce Gym in Accra, was taken to hospital in the bucket of a pickup due to the absence of an ambulance.

Mr. Kwesi Amissah-Arthur died on Friday morning at age 67 at the 37 Military Hospital.

In a statement, the Okyeman Youth Association said that Mr. Dogbe’s statement was reckless and disrespectful.
“The Okyeman Youth Association finds comments very reckless and disrespectful to not only the Okyenhene or the people of Akyem descent, but also the chieftaincy institution of the country and consequently condemns this unprovoked attack on the person of the Okyenhene in no uncertain times.”

The group is therefore asking Stan Dogbe “to apologize to the Okyenhene and the good people of Okyeman.”



No ambulance; Amissah-Arthur was transported in pickup

“We gathered around him and pumped his heart as hard as we could; yelled out his name. His wife was calling on Jesus, ‘save him…’, I just said, call the ambulance and let’s take him to the hospital. Something dawned on me when we took him, there was no ambulance, there was no car, we threw the former vice president in a pick-up, put him in the back and drove to the 37 Military Hospital” the Okyenhene said.

Stan Dogbe criticizes Okyenhene



Stan Xoese Dogbe said “he [Okyenhene], was not the only one present when the tragedy struck our late boss and VP of this country to go around talking. He had a luxury vehicle there, and many others had their cars there, if he had a good heart and spirit of helping others, maybe; just maybe, he would have sent him to the hospital in his car.”

Amissah-Arthur to get state burial
The president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has announced that the late vice president will be given a state burial and that from July 3, 2018, all flags in the country will fly at half mast.

“I have decided, and it is an obvious decision that he should be given a full state burial, and as of today, and for the next five days, Ghana’s national flag will fly in half-mast, here and across the country in commemoration of the death of our former vice president”, the president told Amissah-Arthur’s family when they called on him.

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