NPP’s Amma Busia Dead

Amma Busia, the former first vice-chair of the New Patriotic Party and sister of the late Kofi Abrefa Busia, who served as Ghana’s prime minister in the Second Republic, has passed away. Madam Amma Busia, who until her death was a member of the NPP’s Council of Elders, is said to have died on Tuesday [December 12] after a short illness.

Her son, Obeng Busia confirmed the news, saying she passed away peacefully at the Nyaho Medical Center in Accra.

Amma Busia was one of the most notable members of the ruling New Patriotic Party. Despite difficulties with her health which had made her less mobile in the past decade, she appeared strong and beautiful up to the point of her death at the age of 87.

She was noted for waging a vigorous campaign against the government of Ignatius Kutu Acheampong and was a noted political critic in the 1970s and 1980s. It is a matter of record that she was arrested seven times because of her act