Colonel (then Major) Kwame Baah was appointed minister for foreign affairs after the government of Kofi Abrefa Busia was overthrown in a coup d'état on 13 January 1972.
He was then appointed foreign minister by General (then Colonel) Ignatius Kutu Acheampong in 1972, a position he held till 1975.
[5] He continued at the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, India, and subsequently enlisted in Ghana Army in March 1959.
He became a member of the Supreme Military Council when it was inaugurated in 1975, and in that same year, he was appointed Commissioner for Economic Planning.
[7] At the hearings of the National Reconciliation Commission in Accra on 1 June 2004, a Captain Koda is said to have reported that Colonel Kwame Baah and others were supposed to be among a third batch of officers to be executed during the era of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.