branch death_date allegiance profession nationality rank article_title name
ghana army 1997 -lrb- aged 59 -rrb- ghana soldier ghanaian colonel kwame baah
 kwame baah
kwame baah

colonel kwame r. m. baah -lrb- 21 may 1938 -- 1997 -rrb- was a soldier and politician .
he was the ghanaian foreign minister between 1972 and 1975 .
colonel -lrb- then major -rrb- kwame baah was appointed minister for foreign affairs after the government of dr. kofi abrefa busia was overthrown in a coup d'état on 13 january 1972 .
this replaced the progress party government with the national redemption council .
he was appointed foreign minister by general -lrb- then colonel -rrb- ignatius kutu acheampong in 1972 , a position he held till 1975 .
at the hearings of the national reconciliation commission in accra on 1 june 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 .
this was never carried out .
his successor as foreign minister , col. roger felli was however executed along with five other army officers on 16 june 1979 .
