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Breaking: Anambra House of Assembly majority leader slumps …dies in South Africa

A lawmaker in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Dr Nnamdi Okafor, has died in South Africa.

 

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The Majority Leader of the House and member representing Awka South Constituency 1, collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday, August 23, in a hotel at Sandton City, Johannesburg, and was confirmed dead hours later.

 

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The medical doctor and pharmacist by training popularly called Akajiugo Awka, was said to have gone for a legislative retreat in Johannesburg with other lawmakers.

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The full details of the cause of his death are yet to be ascertained at the time of filing this report.

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