Hannah Sarpong, wife of the late NDC National Vice Chairman, Dr Samuel Sarpong, on Friday, August 15, 2025, honoured her late husband with a heart-touching tribute during the interdenominational state funeral
for the last six victims of the August 6, 2025, helicopter crash.

With tears streaming down her face, she remembered her husband of 37 years as a devoted partner, father, and pillar of strength.

She recalled Dr Sarpong's last phone call to her before the crash, where he said he was embarking on "a return journey."

Holding onto that promise, she said, "I am still looking forward to welcoming you back home, my dear husband. Your departure news continues to cut through my head. It feels unreal, and I keep hoping you would walk back through the door."

Paying tribute to his character, Hannah Sarpong described her late husband, Dr Samuel Sarpong, as a man of wisdom, compassion, and devotion.

With a trembling voice, she said, "You made our home a place of peace, a candle of light, a shelter of happiness. You cared for us with such gracious love and led us with a divine heart,"

Overcome with grief, she expressed the void his passing has left behind: "Your absence is a deep wound in my heart. Yet your love will forever comfort me.

You ran a good race, my husband. May heaven's doors open until we meet again. Rest, my love," Hannah Sarpong said with tears.

Dr Samuel Sarpong, who once served as Ashanti and also Central regional minister, was buried on Friday, August 15, 2025

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Other persons who were buried on August 15, 2025, are Defence Minister Dr Edward Omane Boamah, Samuel Aboagye and all three Air Force men who were the crew members of the crashed aircraft.

They are Squadron Leader Peter Bafemi Anala, Flying Officer Malin Twum-Ampadu and Sgt. Ernest Addo Mensah.

Meanwhile, Alhaji Dr Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed and Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, who were Muslims, have already been buried.

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