Napoleon Ato Kittoe lays wreath for Ghana helicopter victims

One of Ghana’s longest-serving Presidential Correspondents, Napoleon Ato Kittoe has laid a wreath at the flower garden raised in memory of the 8 persons who died in the helicopter crash on August 6, 2025, in Ghana.

The day of his wreath-laying marked exactly one week since the fatal air crash occurred in the Adansi area of Ashanti region. The victims were Defence minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, the Environment minister, Alhaji Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, Deputy National Security Coordinator, Alhaji Muniru Mohammed Limuna, Vice Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress, Dr Samuel Sarpong, and the Deputy Director General of National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, Mr Samuel Aboagye.

The Air Force crew comprised of Squadron leader Peter Bafeemi Anala, Flying Officer Manaen Twum Ampadu, and Sergeant Ernest Mensah Addo.

Napoleon Ato Kittoe said, in the lifetime of Dr Omane Boamah, he had only two contacts with him . Then the Minister of Communications, Dr Omane Boamah hurriedly moved to the emergency ward to join other medical doctors to attend to him when the Ghana Presidential Press Corps was involved in car accident on August 20, 2015. Again, Dr Omane Boamah was among those who reviewed a 2015 audiovisual documentary done by Napoleon for the First Lady.

According to him, he took a photograph with Alhaji Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed in November, 2024, when he visited the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, GBC, in Accra. Napoleon said, he was happy when the President appointed Dr Murtala, the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, because the sector is profound and required a big brain and warm personality like him to steer affairs there.

For Dr Samuel Sarpong, Napoleon said he last spoke with him in 2013 whilst both of them were on a trip outside Ghana together. He said, Dr Samuel Sarpong was a very affable, unflappable, and generous person.

The most touching aspect of Napoleon’s tribute was perhaps the part which explained that the accident could have happened to anybody. He said, as a presidential reporter, flying was a “constant” in the line of duty, and though it was a convenient means of transportation, it is full of hazards.

Napoleon Ato Kittoe advised all actuators to put their safety in their own hands by listening to their intuitions and being strategic within the crowds. He expressed condolences to the bereaved families, as well as the Government and People of Ghana.