NDC Communications Director rented vehicle for press

The press vehicle which was involved in an accident while conveying some journalists in the Western Region was allegedly rented by the Western Regional Communications Director of the NDC, it has been revealed.

A Takoradi-based journalist with Aseda FM Mathew Dadzie who happened to be in the vehicle said he coordinated with the NDC official, Famous Tumi Acquah who also provided a list of journalists expected to join the bus.

Press men in the Western Region returning from President John Mahama's commissioning ceremony of a new community Senior High School, were involved in an accident.

Multimedia journalist, Benjamin Peters who was part of the press corps confirmed that a Toyota pick-up run into the Toyota Hiace vehicle carrying the press men between Beahu and Akowen communities in the Western Region, Monday.

The rented vehicle later run into a branded vechicle belonging to Radio 360 which was also folllowing the convoy, Peters said.

The accident has left Citi FM’s Western Regional Correspondent Oberempong Yaw Ampofo unconscious.

On Adom FM’s Morning Show ‘Dwaso Nsem’, Mathew Dadzie blamed the driver of the press vehicle for the accident.

''We tried to warn him not to follow the convoy but he did not hear us because he had his earpiece in his ears", he said.

The Western Regional Chairman of Ghana Journalist Association Moses Dotse Akloboto said on the same platform that journalists who were involved in the accident attended the programme in their individual capacities.

But he could not confirm that the vehicle was rented by the Western Regional NDC Chairman.

'I am told someone rented the vehicle for the journalists but those in charge are not ready to own up as to who exactly rented the vehicle for the journalists', Moses said.