Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has announced the death of his 85-year-old friend, Daari Pogo in Gurungu Motori in the Upper West Region.
Pogo was a cured leper.
In a Facebook post, the vice-president said: “I have received with sadness, the death of my 85-year-old friend, Madam Daari Pogo, a cured leper, whose deplorable conditions in Gurungu Motori in the Wa West Municipality became a national conversation and I provided her with a two-bedroom house.”
“I thank God for being able to put a smile on her face in the last years of her life. May Madam Daari’s soul rest in peace,” Bawumia added.
