The former Minister for Energy and NPP Flag bearer hopeful, Hon. Boakye Agyarko has paid a glowing tribute to late Col.(Rtd) Dr. Albert Kwaku Akpalu, a surgeon at 37 Military Hospital who saved his life sometime ago.

Dr. Akpalu died last Sunday, 8th January, 2023.

In a tribute Mr Boakye Agyarko described late Dr. Albert Akpalu, as his putative father.

Mr Boakye recounted how he encountered Dr Akpalu under miraculous circumstances.

"On June 18,1983, I had been shot in an extra-judicial killing attempt at the Air Force station at Burma Camp and left for dead.

"It was Doc, who upon being sent to 37 Military Hospital later in the day operated on me and saved my life.

"If there is a life well lived in kindness and generosity, Dr Akpalu, yours will be a shinning
example. For a man who did not know me from Adam, you showed me your kind heart
from the day you operated on me at 37 Military Hospital until the day you responded to
the call of your maker. May the merciful God who made you and gifted you to your family and nation, receive you into His warm embrace. May He give you a well-
deserved eternal rest”.

It will be recalled that after a failed coup d’etat led by Lance Corporal Halidu Giwa and
Sargent Abdul Malik, the Military High Command assumed that the former Energy Minister was part of the coup plotters.

The assumption was as a result of Boakye
Agyarko’s high political activism and criticism of the illegitimacy of the country’s military
leaders led by J J Rawlings.

Boakye Agyarko was arrested by the men from Ghana Armed Forces, brought to the
Burma Camp in Accra and shot him at the Air Force station.

He was presumed dead
and was taken to the morgue at the 37 Military Hospital.

A nurse realised he was not dead and rushed him to the emergency services where he
was operated upon by Dr. Albert Koku Akpalu(now Late).

After the surgery he fled the country through the help of friends.

Agyarko emigrated to
the United States as a political refugee and enrolled at Pace University, where he
graduated with an MBA in Financial Economics.