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Reports reaching peacefmonline.com indicate that Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission is dead. Paul Victor Obeng popularly known as P. V. Obeng was a Ghanaian Mechanical Engineer, politician and chairman of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology council. In 2010, he was appointed by the President John Atta Mills administration as chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC). Obeng was the chief consultant and Chairman of OB Associates, a public and private sector consulting firm and chairman of Ghana Agro and Food Company (GAFCO). P.V Obeng was a product of Opoku Ware School and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. P. V. Obeng served as the chairman of the Committee of Secretaries under the Provisional National Defence Council regime (PNDC) from 1982�1992. He served as Presidential Adviser on Governmental Affairs under the National Democratic Congress (NDC ) from 1992- 1997. P.V. Obeng also served as Chairman of the Ghana Investment Promotion Council (G.I.P.C.) FROM 1992- 1997. In Addition, P.V. also served as director on the Board of Guinness Ghana Limited. He was recently nominated by President Mahama as a Senior Presidential Adviser at the Presidency. The distinguished statesman was said to be returning from a meeting he attended at Akosombo when the incident occurred on the Tema Motorway. May his soul rest in perfect peace.