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Defence Ministry unveils cenotaph in honour of late Omane Boamah
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In dignitaries who graced the occasion included Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Acting Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance; Burkina Faso Minister of Warfare and Patriotic Defence, General Célestin Simporé, service chiefs, Ministers of State, Members of Parliament, religious and traditional leaders, and members of the diplomatic community in Ghana.06, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama has unveiled a cenotaph in memory of the late Defence Minister, Dr Edward Kofi Omane Boamah at the premises of the Ministry of Defence in Accra.
He expressed gratitude to the Ghana Armed Forces for the honour being done to the late Defence Minister, the only Defence Minister on records to have died in active service.
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