Cause Of Philip Atta Basoah’s Death Revealed
On Tuesday, 28th January, 2023, Ghanaians were hit with sad news as the member of Parliament for the Kumawu Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Philip Basoah passes away at the age of 54.
Mr. Basoah first came to Parliament in 2017 after winning the 2016 general elections in the Kumawu constituency.
Prior to sailing to Parliament, Mr. Basoah was a Chief Executive for the Sekyere East District from June 2005 to January 2009 and was also a tutor at the Agogo State College.
In the 2016 Ghana general elections, he won the parliamentary seat with 21,794 votes making 78.2% of the total votes cast on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
In the 2020 Ghana general elections, he won the parliamentary seat with 14,960 votes making 51.1% of the total votes cast.
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The incident which led to his demise has been revealed by the boss of InterCity STC, Nana Akomea. According to Nana Akomea; “Just last Friday we got information that he got stroke. Unfortunately he lives alone, so around 9:30am his Driver who was in his house to take him to Parliament wasn’t hearing from him so together with some people they broke his door since it was locked and found him almost in coma . . .” he narrated to Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FMs ‘kokrokoo’ programme Tuesday morning.
The deceased MP was one of the three absentee MPs last Friday during a critical vote to confirm ministerial appointees of President Akufo-Addo.
He died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, where he has been on admission for a serious ailment.
His death was confirmed by the Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, in a tweet on Tuesday morning.
Hon Basoah was said to have fallen into a coma and was rushed to the hospital. He unfortunately gave up the ghost while plans were underway to fly him out of the country for further medical assistance.
