Nuamah’s mum: We prefer a house to GHC20K

Georgina Opoku, mother of deceased Ghanaian Times reporter Samuel Nuamah, has said the late journalist’s family would have preferred a house as compensation to the GHC 20,000 given to them by President John Mahama.

The President presented a compensation and support package worth GHC93,000 to the family of the late presidential press corps member, who lost his life in a tragic motor accident involving the Corps on August 20.

The compensation package consists of a GHC50,000 endowment fund set up for his little son; US$5,000 for his young widow Lillian; GHC20,000 for his parents; and GHC5,000 for his entire family.

However, after expressing gratitude to the President on Neat FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’ on Monday, Nuamah’s mother said: “I would’ve been happier if the President gave us (Mother and Dad) a house. That has been the call from the family and friends. We were expecting more than the GHC20,000, but we appreciate the President’s effort. We’ll invest and plan towards our future home.” “GHC20,000 can’t afford us a house,” she added.

Thirty-seven-year-old Nuamah was the only journalist who died in the August 20 accident when a bus conveying him and other Flagstaff House reporters from Ho, in the Volta Region, to Accra, after covering the President’s assignment there, bust a tyre and somersaulted before crashing. Other reporters were severely injured.