Ministers of Defense and Environment of Ghana die in a plane crash

Also are among victims Alhaji Muniru Muhammad, assistant coordinator of National Security and former Minister of Agriculture, and Samuel Sarpong, vice president of President Mahama’s National Democratic Congress Party (NDC).

Ghana’s aviation reported on Wednesday morning that a military helicopter disappeared from the radars shortly after his acra takeoff towards Obuasi, northwest of the capital.

Boamah led the Ministry of Defense at a time of growth of jihadist activity on the northern border of Ghana with Burkina Faso.

Although Ghana has so far escaped the dissemination of the jihadist insurrection that affects Sahel, unlike her neighbors Togo and Benim, experts warn of increasing arms trafficking and the infiltration of Burkina groups using Ghana territory as rear.

Doctor, Boamah held several positions in the government, especially the Minister of Communications in the previous term of Mahama (2012-2017). He was also Deputy Minister of the Environment.

Ghana reinforced her diplomatic relations with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, now directed by military joints in break with the Economic Community of the States of West Africa (Cedeao).