Defence Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has strongly refuted claims that Vice President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang chartered a private jet for her return from the United Kingdom, instead turning the spotlight on what he describes as the previous government’s negligence of the official presidential aircraft.
In a statement shared via Facebook on Friday, 23 May, Dr. Boamah accused the former Akufo-Addo administration of failing to maintain the country’s presidential jet, rendering it unfit for use.
He revealed that the aircraft’s fuel tank had become corroded and that the jet is currently grounded abroad, undergoing extensive repairs and maintenance.
The comments were a direct response to criticisms from some New Patriotic Party (NPP) members, specifically, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, who alleged that Vice President Opoku-Agyemang, who had been on medically induced leave in the UK, used a chartered private flight to return to Ghana on Thursday, 22 May.
Dr. Boamah dismissed the accusations, stating:
“Let the NPP that suffered the most humiliating defeat in recent memory in both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections know this: Akufo-Addo’s administration rundown the Presidential jet. Among others, its fuel tank is even corroded.”
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He further elaborated that the aircraft has been in a foreign facility for “maintenance, repair and overhaul” and estimated that it could be restored to a “fairly usable state” after approximately three months of what he described as “therapy.”
“The Presidential jet is unfit for use presently,” he concluded, making it clear that any reliance on alternate travel arrangements stems from the inherited state of the aircraft.
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