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Proof: How Kojo 'Bamba' pulled a surprise and got elected as NPP 1st national vice chairman beating 12 other contestants

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6deba1eb262f36638bb63044abeec21efe04b7f277ecc753af060c0de5432b07

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969890, mined 2026-10-04 19:35 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 18:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 18:52 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-6deba1eb262f.json prints 6deba1eb262f36638bb63044abeec21efe04b7f277ecc753af060c0de5432b07. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-6deba1eb262f.json and headline-6deba1eb262f.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-6deba1eb262f.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.