Gilbert Boafo Boahene

Gilbert Boafo Boahene (18 December 1924 - November 2016) was a Ghanaian civil servant who was Secretary to the Supreme Military Council military government in Ghana before its overthrow in 1979 June 4th revolution.[1]

Early life and education

Boahene was born on 18 December 1924. He started his primary education at the Amanokrom Presbyterian Junior School and continued at the Akropong Presbyterian Middle School popularly known as the Akropong Salem. He had his secondary education at the Accra Academy from 1941 to 1946, obtaining the Cambridge School Certificate Grade 1 with Exemption, from the London Matriculation. He studied at the University of Ghana for a History degree from 1949 to 1954.[2]

Career

He entered the Administrative Service as an Assistant Government Agent to the Kete-Krachi (Buem-Krachi) District in the latter part of 1954, then was transferred to Keta in 1955. In 1955, he was put on appointment as Secretary to the Regional Officer in Ho and became the most ranking Gold Coast citizen in Trans-Volta Togoland.[3][4] He performed the duties of persuading people in the Buem-Krachi, Kpandu and Ho districts of British Togoland to be integrated into Ghana upon independence at the 1956 British Togoland status plebiscite, together with his administrative colleagues.[5] After that, in 1956, he became Government Agent to Jasikan and then transferred again to Kete-Krachi in the same role after Ghana's Independence[6]

After this period, he was attached to the High Commission of Ghana, London, and served as Assistant Director of Recruitment (Overseas) in the Ghana Civil Service for a little over two years, [7] to recruit Ghanaians in Europe and North America, to fill public services vacancies, created by the departure of expatriates during the post independence year.[8]

In 1963, he returned to the Establishment Secretariat in Ghana and was moved to the Ministry of Education on promotion as Principal Assistant Secretary.That same year, Boahene was posted on appointment as Secretary to the Public Services Commission,[9] until 1967 and returned to the Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education and became Principal Secretary there in June 1968.[10][11][12][13][14] He served on the academic boards of all three institutions of higher learning in Ghana which were; University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and University of Cape Coast [15][10]

In 1969 he was made Secretary to the Public Services Commission for the second time, and then in 1972 sent to the Greater Accra Regional Office as Regional Administrative Officer. In 1974 Boahene was appointed Principal Secretary at the Ministry of Defense,[16] where he remained until he was promoted to the grade of Senior Principal Secretary In 1976. That same year in July 1976, he was posted to the seat of government as Deputy Secretary to the Supreme Military Council in direct succession to the Secretary.[17][18][19][20] He was subsequently made Secretary of the Supreme Military Council cabinet, a position he briefly held prior to the June 1979 revolutionary coup d'état that overthrew the Supreme Military Council government. He retired from the Civil Service in October 1979, prior to the coming into office of the Limann civilian administration.[21]

He began studies at the Ghana School of Law in 1994. He was called to the Ghanaian bar in 1998. In October 1998 he went into private law in Oboyang Chambers.[2]

Personal life

He married Christine Joyce Ayisi in 1958. Together, they had 6 children. He is a father-in-law of Okyehene Amoatia Ofori-Panyin II, Paramount chief of Akyem Abuakwa. He died in November 2016.[2]

References

  1. "Ghana Gazette". Government Printer, 1967. July 1967. p. 585.
  2. Brochure: Gilbert Boafo Boahene. 2016. p. 5.
  3. Coast, Gold (1955). The Gold Coast Gazette. p. 1160.
  4. Coast, Gold (1955). Gold Coast Gazette.
  5. Nugent, Paul (2002). Smugglers, Secessionists & Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Toga Frontier: The Life of the Borderlands Since 1914. Ohio University Press, 2002. p. 238. ISBN 9780852554722.
  6. Ghana Gazette. 1961. p. 24.
  7. Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations (1962). The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book. H.M. Stationery Office, 1962. p. 49.
  8. "Tribute from E.A.K Kalitsi, Former CEO of Volta River Authority, to G.B. Boahene". 2016: 2. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. Ghana Gazette. Government Printer, Accra. 1963.
  10. Report of the Commission of Enquiry Into the University College of Cape Coast. Ghana. Commission of Enquiry into the University College of Cape Coast, Republic of Ghana, 1970. 1970. p. 6.
  11. African Studies Newsletter. African Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles. 1969.
  12. Newsletter. African Studies Association. 1968.
  13. Report of the Committee of Experts to Advise on the Future of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, December, 1966: Presented to the National Liberation Council, January 1967. Ghana Information Services, 1967. 1967.
  14. Ghana Year Book. Daily Graphic. 1969.
  15. Newsletter, Volumes 1-4. African Studies Association, 1968. 1968. p. 16.
  16. Report of the Joe Appiah Committee of Enquiry Into the Affairs of R.T. Briscoe (Ghana) Limited. Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1976. 1976. p. 47.
  17. Secretary, Ghana Supreme Military Council Office of the Press (1977). General Kutu Acheampong: The Fifth Milestone, 13th January 1976-12th January 1977. Office of the Press Secretary to the Supreme Military Council.
  18. General Kutu Acheampong: The Fifth Milestone, 13th January 1976-12th January 1977. Office of the Press Secretary to the Supreme Military Council, 1977. 1977. p. 155.
  19. Ghana Gazzette. Government Printer. 1978. p. 424.
  20. Nkrumah, I. K. (August 27, 1977). "Secretaial Training". Daily Graphic (8353): 8.
  21. "JSTOR: Search Results". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
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