In an unexpected twist to recent political chatter, Ghana’s Defence Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has revealed that the country’s Presidential jet is currently grounded, and has been for some time. According to Dr. Boamah, the aircraft is undergoing “three months of therapy” abroad, a term he used to describe a full-scale maintenance, repair, and overhaul effort.
In a Facebook post shared Friday, May 23, the Minister addressed swirling allegations from members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that Vice President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang had used a private jet for her return to Ghana from the United Kingdom on Thursday. She had been on a period of medically induced leave.
But Dr. Boamah wasted no time setting the record straight.
“The Presidential jet has been in the ‘hospital’ abroad… it is unfit for use presently,” he wrote, pushing back hard on the suggestion that the Vice President had opted for luxury over prudence.
The Defence Minister was direct in his response, laying the blame squarely at the feet of the previous NPP government. He claimed that the jet’s poor state, including a corroded fuel tank, was inherited by the current administration.
“Let the NPP that suffered the most humiliating defeat in recent memory in both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections know this,” Boamah added, referencing the outcome of the last general elections while using it as a springboard to critique the party’s handling of state assets.
For many Ghanaians, this revelation raises serious questions, not just about the state of the nation’s leadership transport, but about accountability in how key government equipment is maintained across administrations.
