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  • Video: Driver miraculously unhurt after heavy load cargo falls on his truck in Abura Dunkwa

    Video: Driver miraculously unhurt after heavy load cargo falls on his truck in Abura Dunkwa

    A truck driver narrowly escaped death when a heavy load under escort fell onto his truck and another vehicle at Abura Dunkwa in the Central Region.

    According to a report shared on the social media platform X by EDHUB, the driver, who was badly affected by the accident, survived miraculously but sustained injuries.

    He was extricated from the wreckage and rushed to the hospital for treatment.

    This incident recalls a similar tragedy that took place in November 2020, when two individuals, a man believed to be a worker at a rubber processing factory in the Western Region and a woman, lost their lives after a metal container fell on the vehicle they were traveling in along the Takoradi Vodafone highway.

    The metal container, which was loaded with cocoa beans, had fallen off an articulated truck heading toward the Takoradi Harbour and crashed onto a Daewoo car carrying two occupants.

    The passengers were trapped inside the car, but emergency responders from the Ghana National Fire Service and a Road Safety recovery truck managed to free them. Sadly, they were declared dead at the scene, and their bodies were taken to the Effia Nkwanta Government Hospital morgue in Sekondi for autopsy.

    The damaged vehicles were later towed to the Western Regional MTTD yard in Sekondi for investigation.

    The truck driver, Emmanuel Kwaku, aged 32, was arrested and prosecuted for the incident.

  • Aspiring NDC Constituency Chairman paralyses a day before vetting

    An aspiring Constituency Chairman for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese Constituency in the Central Region has become paralyzed a day before appearing before a vetting Committee in the Constituency.

    Information gathered revealed that the aspirant, Vicent Koomsom, 24 hours prior to the vetting exercise suddenly lost the strength in his legs as soon as he got down from his vehicle.

    The incident has thrown family and friends into a state of shock as they believe there’s been some spiritual orchestration because he’d been very strong and active all this while.

    He’s said to have driven his own vehicle to where he became paralyzed.

    Vicent Koomsom was eventually disqualified from the Chairmanship race for unknown reasons. He later filed an appeal to the Regional Vetting Committee but his disqualification was still upheld.

    According to his supporters, the man has helped the party in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese Constituency and it’s time he should be allowed to lead the party to wrestle power in the 2024 general election.

    They warned that the NDC will lose in the constituency if Vicent Koomsom is denied the opportunity to contest the position.

    He appeared at the NDC Central Regional Office in a wheelchair to defend his disqualification but the earlier decision was not overturned and consequently filed another petition yet to be studied.

    Vicent Koomsom’s supporters have accused former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu who was the 2020 Parliamentary candidate for the area of having a hand in his disqualification.

    However, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has vehemently denied that accusation saying the vetting Committee used the party’s rules and regulations in the discharge of their duty and was fair to all aspirants that appeared before them.