22 people were killed in a bus accident in Kintampo.
According to reports from Kintampo in the Bono East Region, a horrific accident on Sunday night claimed the lives of 22 people.
A Kintampo resident who witnessed the accident told Graphic Online's Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah that it involved a Grandbird bus bound for Yendi-Kumasi with registration number AS 4635 - 22 and a truck with registration number GW 1127 - P.
The accident happened around 11 p.m. on Sunday, according to the resident.
He claimed that the articulated truck veered into the bus's lane in an attempt to avoid colliding with another car parked on the road.
In the end, the bus collided with the articulated truck, killing 22 people and injuring many more.
Kintampo
According to the resident, the accident happened on a stretch of road between Kintampo and Babatokuma.
According to the resident, the bodies have been deposited at the Kintampo Government Hospital morgue, while the injured are being treated at the same facility.
The drivers of the two vehicles who are said to have survived the crash are being held by police.
More to come later...
read also: NDC to Akufo-Addo: Apologize to Volta Region before Independence Day celebrations
The Volta Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to apologize to the people of the region before this year's Independence Day celebrations.
The apology will be for the "kind of humiliations he subjected the good people of the region to during the 2020 voter registration," according to the branch.
Government has earmarked the Volta Region capital, Ho, for the celebration of this year's independence anniversary on the theme: "Our Unity, Our Strength, Our Purpose".
The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who is also the President of Guinea Bissau, will be the Special Guest at the event on Monday, March 6.
In a statement released on Saturday, March 4, the Volta Region NDC made five demands of the government as it prepares for the celebration.
Here are the requirements:
1. Apologize for treating Volta Region residents as second-class citizens during the ECOWAS card registration process (Ghana Card)
2. Immediately release the 126 million dollars owed to the region's eighteen municipal and district assemblies.
3. Build one warehouse per constituency as promised.
4. A single district and a single factory project.
5 Finish all abandoned projects:
Roads from Ave-Dakpa to Akatsi and Akatsi to Avenofeme
ii. Ho-Torkor and Sokode-Kpeve roads captured as "emergency roads" in the government-designated 2020 year roads."
According to the opposition party, the GH360,000 that the government is demanding from the Region's 18 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assembly (MMDAs) should instead be channeled into poverty alleviation projects.
"We strongly believe that these would benefit the people of the Volta Region and Ghana as a whole," it added.
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