Veteran journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has revealed that the current Minister of Defence of Dr Edward Omane Boamah, was a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
According to Kwesi Pratt, Omane Boamah left the NPP to join the NDC after he was criticised by his party members when he decided to fire shots at the happenings in the Kufuor government.
Speaking in a panel discussion, Kwesi Pratt Jnr detailed, “Dr Omane Boamah is Minister of Defence. One of the three key ministers in this administration. Where did he come from? I know how he entered the NDC”.
“In the second term of President Kufuor, when prices were running helter-skelter, especially of fuel and so on, we decided to set up the Committee for Joint Action. So, at the meeting, I argued that what was happening was something which worried even people in the NPP, and, therefore, it was important to get those people in the NPP to speak out”,.
He added, “So, I was tasked to find somebody like that. At the time, Dr Omane Boamah, as President of the National Union of Ghana Students, was under attack by the NPP and had been drawn into a fight with the NPP. So, I suggested Dr Omane Boamah, and I was asked to bring him and to make him read the first statement of the Committee for Joint Action,” he narrated.
He continued, “That is how Dr Omane Boamah eventually became a member of the NDC and has risen to the very top, and there are many others.”
Watch the video below:
Mr Kwesi Pratt reveals how Dr Omane Boamah left the NPP to join the NDC. pic.twitter.com/LFFDFsGIaZ
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