A former Member of Parliament for Kade Constituency, Ofosu Asamoah, has questioned why the late Dr Samuel Sarpong was on the military aircraft heading to Obuasi for a State event on small-scale mining.
According to the member of the opposition (NPP), Dr Samuel Sarpong, who before his untimely death was the First National Vice Chairman of the ruling (NDC), was neither a minister, military personnel or a an employee of any identifiable government institution.
The former Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission, in a panel discussion on Channel One TV, said since Dr Sarpong was not a member of the aforementioned agencies, he shouldn't have been on the military aircraft that crashed on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at Adansi Akrofoum in the Ashanti Region. "This will be very controversial but Dr Sarpong, he was not a Minister of State, he is not a serving officer of the Armed Forces, he is not an employee of NADMO or any identifiable government institution except that he is a party chairman. "I understand that even in my party, it happened when the president was travelling and party wanted to join him.
But in the circumstance, who takes care of him in the aftermath of something.
