Kwame Baah

Colonel Kwame R. M. Baah (born 1938) was a soldier and politician. He was the Ghanaian foreign minister between 1972 and 1975.

Colonel (then Major) Kwame Baah was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs after the government of Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia was overthrown in a coup d'état on January 13, 1972. This replaced the Progress Party government with the National Redemption Council. He was appointed foreign minister by General (then Colonel) Ignatius Kutu Acheampong in 1972, a position he held till 1975. [cite web|url=http://rulers.org/fm2.html |title=Foreign ministers E-K - Ghana |accessdate=2007-04-12 |author=B. Schemmel |work=Lists of heads of state of government and ministers of various countries |publisher=Rulers.org]

At the hearings of the National Reconciliation Commission in Accra on June 1, 2004, a Captain Koda is said to have reported that Colonel Kwame Baah and others were supposed to be among a third batch of officers to be executed during the era of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. [cite news |url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=58921 |title=Capt Koda testifies at NRC |accessdate=2007-04-12 |date=1 June 2004 |work=General News of Tuesday, 1 June 2004 |publisher=Ghana Home Page] This was never carried out. His successor as foreign minister, Col. Roger Felli was however executed along with five other army officers on June 16, 1979.cite web|url=http://www.ghana.gov.gh/NRC/VOL%202%20Part%201%20CHAPTER%206%20Review%20of%20Petitions.pdf |title=CHAPTER 6: REVIEW OF PETITIONS E: 4TH JUNE, 1979 – 23RD SEPTEMBER 1979 (AFRC REGIME)|accessdate=2007-04-12 |date=October 2004 |format=pdf |pages=page 180 |work=THE National Reconciliation Commission Report |publisher=Ghana government]

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ee also

*National Redemption Council
*Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)