"Press corps vehicle was rented by NDC communication director"
A Takoradi-based journalist with Aseda FM, Mathew Dadzie has revealed that the press vehicle involved in an accident while conveying some journalists in the Western region was rented by the Western Regional Communications Director of the NDC, Famous Tumi Acquah.
The accident, was said to have happened when the journalists were returning from Bameako in the Western Region where the President commissioned a free day Senior High School (SHS).
The vehicle was rammed by two other vehicles in a confused traffic situation.
A reporter with Accra-based Citi FM, Obrempong Yaw Ampofo is said to be in critical condition at the Kwesimintim hospital in Takoradi, while others sustained minor aches and pains.
Government communicators have insisted the Presidency and NDC party knew nothing about the presence of the mediamen covering the president's activities in the region.
The Western Region Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Moses Dotse Aklobotu has also claimed the journalists attended the programme on their own volition and not as part of a convoy.
But Mathew Dadzie, who was part of the team of journalists who provided media coverage stated on Adom FM's morning show 'Dwaso Nsem' Tuesday that Famous Tumi Acquah hired the bus for the journalists and also provided a list of journalists authorised to board it.
The journalists were first driven to the residence of the Regional Minister where they were given lunch and later driven to Bameako, and it would therefore be strange for anyone to claim they were not part of the official team, he added.
Dadzie however blamed the driver of the vehicle for driving carelessly which later resulted in the near fatal accident.
''Seriously, I don't blame anyone but the driver, he had an earpiece in his ears and would not bother to even listen to us when we called on him to take his time" he lamented.
The President has since moved to the Central Region.
Source: Ghana/Adomonline.com
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