The Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Rashid Tanko-Computer, has disclosed that the late Minister of Defence, spent the morning of the fatal helicopter crash leading a virtual meeting on strategies ahead of Akwatia by-elections.

Speaking on Joy News PM Express and monitored by GhanaWeb on Thursday, August 14, 2025, he recounted the last meeting which began around 7:45 am.

The Acting CEO of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) said the meeting focused on the upcoming by-election scheduled for September 2, 2025.

"That morning we had this meeting around 7:45 am and he was giving us strategies on how to go about the elections in Akwatia. My colleague Mahdi was to take the lead and I was to stay back to do certain things with the EC and all that... (sic). He gave us all this strategy because Dr Omane Boamah was a master planner. All these things that we're doing, he was behind it. He would say, 'You sit down, put pen and paper together, map up the strategy’ and then say ‘you go and handle it'", he noted.

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He further disclosed none of the executives were aware he was scheduled to travel later in the morning.

"So that morning we had finished all these things and were to report back to him by evening. He didn't tell us that he was traveling. None of us knew he was going to travel," he added.

Dr Omane Boamah was one of the 8 persons who perished in a fatal helicopter crash at Sikaman on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

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A state burial will be held at the Black Star Square in Accra to honour the 8 heroes.

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