Mohammed Hardi Tuferi, the Nanton representative to parliament, has claimed that the collision occurred last Friday night while his car was travelling at a high rate of speed towards the building.
Only hours before a vital vote on the government's revenue proposals, the Nanton MP for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was involved in a dramatic turn of events when he was involved in a vehicle accident on Friday night.
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A kilometre or more separated the accident site from Parliament House.
He was the driver of the pickup truck that was involved in the crash at North Ridge, close to the Absa Bank clubhouse and the British High Commission, at around 9 o'clock in the evening.
For the first time since the accident, the lawmaker acknowledged speeding in public. He said that when he was summoned, his major concern was figuring out how to get to Parliament, and as a result, he did not notice the second car he ran into.
He said that he was hurrying since he had been asked to come to Parliament before the important vote that night.
In a radio interview with Citi Radio in Accra that Graphic Online listened to, Mr Tuferi said he did not notice the other car.
His car performed a summersault and came to rest upside down.
He said he lost all control of the vehicle and that the windscreen came down, opening a window for him to exit the vehicle on his own.
He said that he was initially recognised by members of the Parliamentary staff, who then put him in an Uber that they were already travelling in and drove him to Parliament. Around a kilometre separates the accident scene from Parliament.
When he realised he could walk and talk, he started his first thought when he got out of the car after the accident was how to go to Parliament to cast his ballot. He then departed the area, leaving several members of the Parliamentary staff to protect the items when his niece arrived at the accident scene, his car and the other victim were still there.
Mr Tuferi claimed he was trying to enter the Chamber when he saw there was blood on him. But, several of his coworkers—including Deputy Majority Chief Whip Habib Iddrisu—spotted him and directed him to the restroom, where the nurses and doctor cleaned him up and sewed a laceration above his right eye.
He said that after being further examined, he was placed in an ambulance, at which point his vote was added to the deciding one when the Whip from the Minority side arrived at the ambulance to confirm he was the rightful candidate.
He was brought to the hospital for a brain scan and kept overnight.
After being released the next morning, he travelled to Tamale to speak with his people.
Mr Tuferi said that since then, he had already returned to Accra, where he had met the second accident victim, a driver of a Toyota Corolla, and taken them both to the Osu police station, where the investigation was being conducted.
The driver describes the collision with the Nanton MP.
According to Kwabena, the sole survivor of last Friday's car crash, the tragedy happened at 9 o'clock, he said in a radio interview with Accra-based Citi FM.
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