{"id":72425,"date":"2025-08-07T08:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72425"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:20:31","slug":"ghana-releases-names-of-helicopter-crash-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/07\/ghana-releases-names-of-helicopter-crash-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Releases Names of Helicopter Crash Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Ghana has released the names of all eight victims who died in the military helicopter crash that occurred on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The victims included top government officials and military personnel on an official mission to Obuasi, as part of the national crackdown on illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Z-9 helicopter, operated by the Ghana Armed Forces, lost contact mid-flight and was later found wrecked in a forested area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deceased are: Dr. Edward Kofi Omane Boamah, Minister of Defence, Alhaji Dr. Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Alhaji Muniru Mohammed, Acting Deputy National Security Coordinator, Dr. Samuel Sarpong, Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Samuel Aboagye, former parliamentary candidate, Squadron Leader Peter Bafemi Anala, pilot, Flying Officer Manin Twum-Ampadu, co-pilot and Sergeant Ernest Addo Mensah, crew member<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the national tragedy, President John Dramani Mahama declared three days of national mourning beginning Thursday, August 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also directed that all national flags be flown at half-mast across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have launched a full investigation to determine the cause of the crash, while security agencies continue to examine the wreckage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Government of Ghana has released the names of all eight victims who died in the military helicopter crash that occurred on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. &nbsp; The victims included top government officials and military personnel on an official mission to Obuasi, as part of the national crackdown on illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72427,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425\/revisions\/72427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}