Ghana’s Vice President, Her Excellency Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has expressed her deepest joy after her successful comeback to the country after almost two months of her stay seeking treatment in the United Kingdom.
She told President John Mahama and a host of government officials upon arrival on May 22, that God has been merciful to her.
“His mercies have been infinite, as always, and I’m very grateful. I express gratitude to the medical staff, too, for seeing the right thing, for making the right proposals. So I’m very happy to be back, and there’s so much that has happened that we all need to do. And I know that with our collective will, we’ll do much more for our country,” she said.
Prof Opoku-Agyemang thanked President Mahama for the support shown her during the trying times.
“And to my boss. That day, I don’t know where you appeared from, but he came and quickly set in motion what we needed to do. And I also want to thank all of you, your prayers, for your good wishes. I can’t be thankful enough,” she stated.
The Vice President singled out President Mahama’s brother, Ibrahim Mahama for praise.
“I’m very grateful. But I need to isolate, beyond family and friends, your brother, Mr. Ibrahim. He stopped at nothing to ensure that I had what I needed. And then he also came to the hospital. He came to sit by me, and that was healing by itself. So, my little boss, I’m very, very grateful,” she said.
For his part, President Mahama welcomed Prof Opoku-Agyemang back home and advised her to take it easy.
“On behalf of the people of Ghana, we wish to warmly welcome our beloved Vice President. It has been a trying time for everybody, and a lot of prayers were said for your safe return, and so today is a special day that you have stepped back in the country, on the land of Ghana, looking younger, looking cheerful, and we thank God for his mercies.
Since you left, your colleagues, we’ve all missed you. We held a 120-day social contract program, and everybody said you should have been there. But with all the work you did before you went, we continued, and I think that we were able to present to the people of Ghana a significant percentage of the things that we had promised. But in all this, you were missed. Ghana is safe, things seem to be on the right track, and you’ve come at the right time to come and continue the work that you so beautifully started.
And your colleagues we’re very happy to have you back. I particularly have missed you, because even traveling out of the country has been difficult. They’ve threatened to impeach me for going to Togo when you were away.
So, you are warmly welcome. We are grateful to all the staff outside there who looked after you, our embassy staff in London. I came there myself, and you told me how courteous they had been and how they had been of help.
But I think in all this, it raises the issues of us improving our health care so that we can handle emergencies like this. We built a critical hospital, which is the UGMC, but it’s still not at the stage where it can handle some of these cases.
And so it’s a call to duty that we should implement it the way Professor Mills had intended it to be, so that in the future, emergencies like this can be handled without us having to fly out.
But we’re happy to have you. The doctors say you are 20 years younger, and that you are okay and fit for the job. But we’ll ask that you take it easy for a little while, and after that, we’ll see how things go. So, thank you very much on behalf of all our colleagues, on behalf of all Ghanaians. I’m sure today Ghanaians will be very happy. I want to say thanks to God,” the President said.
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang’s health became a public concern after she reportedly fell ill on Friday, March 28, 2025. She was admitted to the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) the following day for medical attention.
