Media personality and gender advocate, Josephine Oppong-Yeboah, has urged the government to immortalise the memory of the eight Ghanaians who perished in the recent helicopter crash by ending illegal mining and establishing a forensic facility in their honour.
She argued that since the victims were on a mission related to mining, halting illegal mining would be a fitting tribute.
Describing the incident as a "tragedy of national scale" that pricks the conscience of all Ghanaians, she lamented that illegal mining was not only destroying the environment but also claiming the country's finest brains.
Background Around midday on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, the Ghana Armed Forces announced that a Ghana Air Force Z-9 helicopter carrying eight people had gone missing after taking off from Accra.
