Family of thirty (30) year man Kwasi Ameley killed by a driver over an argument on social distancing breaches in his Vehicle is calling for justice.
The driver, Appau Ato, 30, and mate picked quarrel with the deceased and his brother who joined the vehicle on Suhum to Koforidua road after complaining that the driver had overloaded the Vehicle contrary to social distancing directive.
This created a heated argument in the Vehicle between passengers on the other side and the accused driver and mate.
Upon reaching Akwadum roundabout, the deceased and his brother angrily alighted, slammed the door of the Vehicle, and banged it while casting insinuations. They refuse to pay the transportation fare because he hasn’t reached his destination.
This angered the Driver and mate to physically attack the two brothers. In the Process, the mate allegedly pulled a knife for the driver who stabbed the deceased multiple times to death.
His brother also suffered multiple knife injuries but currently being treated at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.
The Koforidua District Magistrate Court “B” Presided over by His Worship Eric Daning on Thursday remanded the driver.
The Driver has been provisionally charged with murder and expected to reappear before Court in two weeks.
The bereaved family told mybrytfmonline.com, they want Police to release the body for burial without an autopsy.
We want justice to prevail. When the incident occurred youth in this community mobilized in an attempt to attack the family house of the suspect driver but I restrained them so we want justice. Also, the family wants the police to release the body for burial we don’t want them to cut the body for any autopsy it is against the belief of the family”, Akonde Lanbante Issah, Assemblymember for the area who spoke on behalf of the family said.
But the Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, says the autopsy is needed to ensure that justice is served.
Sister to the deceased, Cynthia Ameley appealed to the government to support the family take care of the widow and only child of the deceased.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah