Member
of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency on the ticket of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP), Emmanuel Kyeremanteng-Agyarko has stridently
censured the Central Regional Minister, Samuel Sarpong, for
countenancing the physical manhandling of a tipper-truck driver by his
bodyguards.
Yaw Owusu, a 43-year old tipper-truck driver, was
allegedly beaten and detained by the police without bail on the orders
of the Regional Minister after his truck collided with the Minister's
vehicle.
The driver was said to be returning to Accra with his
heavy loaded truck when he run into the Minister's vehicle, compelling
the Minister's bodyguard and driver to take him through some rounds of
beatings in the full glare of other road users on the Winneba-Kasoa road
Tuesday afternoon.
Hon. Samuel Sarpong reportedly instructed that the truck driver remits the cost of damage done to his car.
Addressing
the issue on Oman FM, the NPP MP cautioned his colleagues and Ministers
in the country not to abuse their authority. He implored them to avoid
exercising arbitrary powers over the Ghanaian citizenry, particularly
those who ensured their victory.
He asked the Ministers not to turn themselves into “tin gods" just because of the authority handed over to them by the masses.
He
was therefore of a strong view that Hon. Samuel Sarpong, under no
circumstances, should have blatantly disregarded the law by failing to
restrain his bodyguard and driver.
“We, who were voted for, and
we, who pleaded with the electorates to give us power; when we get to
that stage, we must not begin to think that we've become dummy gods," he
said, stressing that the Central Regional Minister does not deserve his
"title" because it must be such that he "command respect and honour
that they will not even go ahead and break the law in your presence. I
think it’s a national day of shame.” |
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