Former New Patriotic Party flagbearer hopeful and former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, on Sunday, May 25, 2024, led a citizen’s arrest on a truck driver allegedly responsible for killing a motorcyclist and attempting to flee.
According to reports, the former MP and his team, while returning from Cape Coast, chanced upon the accident scene where the motorcyclist had been run over by a truck and was lying on the road dead, with his motorbike on fire.
Alarmed by the event, the former MP chased down the driver of the truck, whose wrongful overtaking had allegedly caused the accident, arrested him, and handed him over to the police at Assin Manso.
“Why did you have to run away? If you have committed a mistake, why then do you run away?” the former MP is heard questioning the driver of the truck with registration number AS 9475-19 in a video.
The driver, who was arrested together with his mate, insisted that he was never aware that he had caused an accident.
However, other drivers at the scene corroborated the claim that the accident was caused by the truck driver who had engaged in wrongful overtaking on the stretch between Nsuta and Anyinabrim in the Effutu Municipality of the Central Region.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service is yet to issue an official statement on the incident.
