The death is announced in Accra of Dr Jude Edmund Aidoo, 69, former NPP Co-ordinator for North America. Jude studied medicine in America in the early sixties and worked in various hospitals in the US before returning to Ghana to work at the Police Hospital from 1975-81. He went back to the US in 1981 and set up his own practice in general surgery till 1998 when he returned home and established a farm at Nsawam producing cassava, maize, pineapples, and poultry. He was adjudged the best maize farmer at Nsawam in 1999.

He left behind his wife, Nora and four children. Burial arrangements will be announced later.