A nephew of Theodosia Okoh says the portrait on the new GH¢50 note is not the woman who designed Ghana's flag, but his own mother, Dr Leticia Obeng.
Dr Eddie Obeng said he had begun drafting congratulations to a cousin on hearing his aunt [Theodosia Okoh] would be honoured on one of the new Heritage Series banknotes, then paused to examine the note itself.
"Imagine my surprise when I took a look and realised that they have used a picture of my mother [Dr Leticia Obeng] instead, she's famous for being the country's first lady PhD," he wrote on LinkedIn. "You can't make it up," he added.
The woman he believes is pictured is his mother, Dr Letitia Obeng, a noted zoologist said to be the first Ghanaian woman to hold a doctorate. Theodosia Okoh was her sister, a family link that makes the claimed mix-up especially pointed.
Okoh, a teacher and artist, designed the red, gold and green flag with the black star that Ghana adopted at independence in 1957. She also led the growth of hockey in the country and died in April 2015.
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