Did you know that the current Minister of Defence of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, led by President John Dramani Mahama, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, was a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)?

According to veteran journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, in an interview on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji, the Minister of Defence used to be a member of the NPP.

“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,” he said.

He went on to narrate how Omane Boamah left the NPP to join the NDC when he was the President of the National Union of Ghana Students.

He asserted that the now defence minister left the NPP to join the NDC after he was castigated by his party members when he decided to criticise happenings in the John Agyekum Kufuor government.

“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.

“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 to say that; “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 a video of his remarks below: