{"id":691,"date":"2025-08-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=691"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:31:28","slug":"ghanas-defence-environment-ministers-among-8-killed-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s defence, environment ministers among 8 killed in helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A helicopter crash has killed all eight people on board, including the nation\u2019s defence and environment ministers, according to Ghana\u2019s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed were among the victims of the crash in the southern Ashanti region of the country, said Julius Debrah, chief of staff to President John Mahama, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tems - Love Me JeJe (Official Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_NTooezadU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d said Debrah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s National Democratic Congress (NDC) party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boamah was helming Ghana\u2019s defence ministry at a time when armed groups across its northern border in Burkina Faso had become increasingly restive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ghana has so far avoided a rebel spillover from the Sahel \u2013 unlike neighbours Togo and Benin \u2013 observers have warned of increased arms trafficking and of fighters from Burkina Faso crossing the porous border to use Ghana as a rear base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A medical doctor by training, Boamah\u2019s career in government included stints as communications minister during Mahama\u2019s previous 2012-2017 tenure. Before that, he was the deputy minister for the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Ghana has pursued increased diplomacy with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger \u2013 all ruled by military governments who have broken with the ECOWAS West African regional bloc \u2013 Boamah led a delegation to Ouagadougou in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement had said that three crew and five passengers were on board, without specifying at the time that the ministers were among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All flags were to be flown at half-staff, Debrah said, while the presidency said Mahama had cancelled his official activities for the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/6\/ghanian-defence-environment-ministers-killed-in-helicopter-crash\">(AlJazeera)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter crash has killed all eight people on board, including the nation\u2019s defence and environment ministers, according to Ghana\u2019s government. Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed were among the victims of the crash in the southern Ashanti region of the country, said Julius Debrah, chief of staff to President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[859,856,36,858,857,862,860,38,861],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","tag-ecowas","tag-edward-omane-boamah","tag-ghana","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-ibrahim-murtala-muhammed","tag-john-mahama","tag-mohammad-muniru-limuna","tag-national-democratic-congress","tag-samuel-sarpong"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana\u2019s defence, environment ministers among 8 killed in helicopter crash - 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