A Circuit Court in Accra yesterday heard that Archbishop Elisha Salifu Amoako and his spouse, Mouha Amoako admitted to permitting their 16-year-old son to drive.
Court paperwork state that the couple “admitted throughout investigations that they allowed their son to drive to the health club, inside their neighbourhood, and to different locations.”
Their son, Elrad Amoako was concerned in a deadly accident which led to the dying of two 12-year-old ladies at East Legon on October 12, 2024.
Several others, together with himself and one other particular person within the Jaguar SUV he was driving additionally acquired injured.
The accident occurred round 6pm final Saturday when Elrad Salifu Amoako drove his mother or father’s Jaguar SUV right into a 4×4 Acura, leading to a hearth that burnt each autos past recognition.
The 4×4 Acura automobile with registration quantity GR 2542 – 23, was being pushed by Joseph Ackah with 4 different occupants, at Mensah Wood Street at East Legon.
The couple, along with one other accused named Linda Bonsu Bempah, have been charged with one cunt of ‘allowing unlicensed particular person to drive, opposite to Regulation 42 of the Road Traffic Regulations, 2012 (L.I. 2180).
They all pleaded not responsible to the costs and their legal professionals took turns to hope the court docket to confess them to bail pending the trial.
Justice Abdulai, counsel for Archbishop Amoako instructed the court docket that the couple are mannequin dad and mom who’re admired by their group not due to the best way they conduct themselves, but in addition due to the impression they make on society.
Mr. Abdulai additional acknowledged that the couple’s son by which the accident occurred, admittedly contributed to what has occurred however he’s additionally a sufferer and on the hospital.
He added that the court docket can simply conclude that the couple have finished nothing fallacious and are solely in court docket due to their organic connection to their son.
Ebenezer Yaw Acquah, an Assistant State Attorney didn’t oppose the purposes for bail however instructed the court docket to set circumstances that can compel the accused individuals to seem earlier than the court docket.
He additionally urged the court docket to order the accused individuals to deposit their passports and Ghana Cards with the police in addition to set a bail sum that deter the sureties from helping them to abscond.
The court docket, after listening to the events, granted the accused particular person a bail of GH¢50,000 every with two sureties every and adjourned the case to October 30, 2024.
The prosecution’s temporary info state that on October 12, 2024, whereas celebrating the twenty fifth birthday of his elder brother, Bonsu Prempeh (A3) gave the important thing to Mouha Amoako’s Jaguar F-Pace Sport SUV, with registration quantity GN 7801-20, to the 16-year-old, understanding very nicely that he was a minor and didn’t have a driver’s licence.
The 16-year-old then drove the automobile together with his good friend, Prince Tijani, heading in direction of the Bawaleshie path on Dzanie Ashie Street.
It mentioned upon reaching a bit of the street on the Mensa Wood Avenue junction, he drove into the rear of an Acura 4×4 automobile with registration quantity GR 2542-23.
The temporary info point out that impression propelled each autos throughout the street into a close-by home’s fence wall. Both autos caught hearth and have been burned past recognition.
Two occupants of the Acura, particularly Justine Agbenu and Maame Dwomoh Boateng, each 12 years of age, have been trapped within the automobile and died within the hearth.
The 16-year-old and two of the injured occupants are at present admitted to the University of Ghana Medical Centre.
