How can a chopper with top officials just crash if not targeted? – Kwame Yeboah asks

Music producer Kwame Yeboah has raised questions about the circumstances surrounding the military helicopter crash on August 6, 2025, which claimed the lives of eight Ghanaian statesmen, including two Cabinet Ministers.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z on August 9, 2025, Yeboah said he found it hard to believe that a helicopter carrying top government officials could crash if all safety checks had been done correctly.

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The tragic incident, which occurred in Adansi Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region, killed Minister of Defence Dr Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology Dr Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, three Ghana Armed Forces crew members, and other senior officials.

Before the programme moved to its main entertainment topics, the panelists discussed the tragedy.

Yeboah said that if the helicopter had been properly inspected and cleared for flight, there should be no reason for such an accident unless someone had wanted the government officials dead.

He drew comparisons to other tragedies around the world, suggesting that such incidents sometimes happen when powerful interests are involved.

Yeboah stressed that the tragedy should serve as a wake-up call for Ghana to raise its safety standards and ensure thorough checks are always carried out to prevent similar disasters in the future.

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“It’s not the time to put blame and all that stuff, but I think we as Ghanaians should be able to ask better questions, and we need to stop this mediocre stuff that we work with. I believe if everything was checked right, I don’t know all the extra stuff around it.

“I don’t understand why a helicopter carrying top government officials will just crash. If it’s not like someone wanted them to die, that shouldn’t be happening, because whenever I’ve heard anything to do with this stuff in the West, it means some guys were on the plane that had some patent of something, you know, like the Malaysian airliner that disappeared.

“We heard later on that some people were on board who had some patent stuff that was important to other people. Or you hear now that the Titanic, which sank so many years ago, it turns out somebody else had insurance taken on it, and then in the end… do you get what I mean?

“So with these things, it makes me start thinking, wait, is this just fate? What is this? If it’s not connected, then why does this happen? It shouldn’t be happening. And if someone didn’t do some checks and this happened, then we should make sure we raise our standards, and for these things, we should be able to prevent them. It’s such a short journey from here to Obuasi on a chopper to experience that,” Kwame Yeboah stated.

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