Minister kills man; Swerves family out of compensation

Deputy Central Regional Minister, Mr. Thomas Aquinas Quansah, who ran his vehicle over a man and killed him, is running away from paying the promised compensation to the family.

According to the family, the Minister is refusing all overtures to come clean and pay the promised compensation for the life of the man he snuffed so ungraciously.

This, according to the family of the late Samuel Inkoom, is to meet the social and economic needs of the deceased person's children.

The late Samuel Inkoom was knocked down on the 27th of May 2012 on the Kumasi-Nyamoransa highway at AssinFosu in the Assin South District of the Central Region by the car of Deputy Central Regional Minister and Member of Parliament for Mfantseman West, Hon. Aquinas Quansah.

The Minister was driving in the evening when the accident occurred and questions have been raised over his state of inebriation.

However the Minister, after making a donation to the family members towards the funeral of the deceased, has since left the family to their fate.

Speaking to the Daily Searchlight, the son of the late Inkoom, Peter Inkoom aka Abeiku said his father before his death was a healthy and hardworking man who worked hard to take care of his family.

He said, the deceased left behind two wives and fifteen children.

“Out of the fifteen only three are independent. The rest are very young; as young as 8 years and there is no money to take care of them. Some of them have even been sacked from school”, he said.

According to Abeiku, when his father died the Minister only donated a cash of GHC 1000 towards the funeral and gave GHC200 each to the two wives. Since then nothing has been heard of him.

Madam Esi-Akyere, one of the widows in an interview with this paper recounted the number of times they have been to the house of Hon. Quansah.

She said “We board a car to his house in Cape Coast to tell him about the hardship we are facing but we did not meet him and so we left message for him to get back to us but we have not heard from”.