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GHANA’S DEFENCE, ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS DIE IN HELICOPTER CRASH

Admin August 6, 2025
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The Ghanaian Ministers of Defence and Environment have been killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.

Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, and eight other government officials were among the victims of the crash in the Southern Ashanti region of the country.

Disclosing the unfortunate incident, the Chief of Staff to President John Mahama, said that “The president and the government extend their condolences and solidarity to the families of our comrades and soldiers who fell in their service to the nation.”

Also among the victims were Alhaji Mohammad Muniru Limuna, Deputy National Security Coordinator and former Minister of Agriculture, and Samuel Sarpong, Vice Chairman of Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) party.

Boamah was helming Ghana’s defence ministry at a time when armed groups across its northern border in Burkina Faso had become increasingly restive.

While Ghana has so far avoided a rebel spillover from the Sahel – unlike neighbours Togo and Benin – observers have warned of increased arms trafficking and of fighters from Burkina Faso crossing the porous border to use Ghana as a rear base.

A medical doctor by training, Boamah’s career in government included stints as communications minister during Mahama’s previous 2012-2017 tenure. Before that, he was the deputy minister for the environment.

As Ghana has pursued increased diplomacy with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – all ruled by military governments who have broken with the ECOWAS West African regional bloc – Boamah led a delegation to Ouagadougou in May.

He had been set to release a book titled: “A Peaceful Man in an African Democracy, about former President John Atta Mills, who died in 2012.

The Ghanaian Armed Forces had reported earlier Wednesday that an air force helicopter had fallen off radar after taking off from Accra just after 9:00am (09:00 GMT). It had been headed towards the town of Obuasi, northwest of the capital.

The statement had said that three crew and five passengers were on board, without specifying at the time that the ministers were among them.

All flags were to be flown at half-staff, Debrah said, while the presidency said Mahama had cancelled his official activities for the day.

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