Barbara Coleman who was a wife to Mr. Blackwell, was a daughter of one of Ghana’s minister then. A report by the Chronicle newspaper on the issue that occurred in 2004, highlights how John Dramani Mahama, who was then MP for Bole and Hawa Yakubu of Bawku Central, backed Grace Coleman and made appeals to the government not to extradite Grace Coleman for prosecution in the US. It also shares some details on how her mother, Grace Coleman, suffered pain before her death. Grace Coleman losing her job as Deputy Minister of Finance in the [New] Patriotic Party (NPP) regime under President J. These events are what eventually caused the death of her mother, Grace Coleman in 2009.

Source: GhanaWeb September 15, 2021 12:11 UTC