Throwing Amissah-Arthur in a pick-up reveals our unwillingness to think as a nation – Group

A group calling itself the Youth Empowerment Summit (YES) says the manner in which the late Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur was transported to the hospital reveals the unwillingness of the nation to think.

“It reveals our unwillingness to think as a nation and solve the problems that confront us on daily basis. As unfortunate as it may be. It is not surprising at all”. President of YES, Clement Sarfo Adjei told MyNewsGh.com’s Syxtus Eshun in Kumasi in an interview.

Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur died on Friday, 29th June 2018 after he was reported to have collapsed and never recovered at a gym.

Most Ghanaians became skeptical about circumstances leading to the death of the former second gentleman of the land raising lots of questions.

President Nana Akufo-Addo described his death as a shocking.

However, Okyehene Amoatia Ofori Panin II, paramount chief of the Akuem Abuakwa Traditional Council has set the records straight by letting the public know circumstances that culminated in the death of the former Vice President.

“There was no ambulance to ferry ex-Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur to the 37 Military Hospital after he collapsed at the Airforce Gym on Friday, 29th June 2018 during one of his usual workout sessions”. He revealed.

The Okyehene was also working out in the same gym as the two “friends” had done over the past 14 years.

According to him, as the two of them worked out separately, “… I heard ‘bang’! Three women in the gym were screaming, I left my machine and went and there lay my friend trying to find some air to breathe.

“We gathered around him and pumped his heart as hard as we could, yelled out his name; his wife was calling out: ‘Jesus, save him!’ I just said: ‘Call the ambulance, let’s take him to the hospital’.

“There were about seven, eight of us, and something dawned on me: When we took him out, there was no ambulance, there was no car, we threw the former vice-president in the back of a pick-up and drove off to 37”. He said.

The Youth Empowerment Summit has described the situation as not surprising “We have allowed partisan politics to take the center stage in everything we do and we’re thinking in the national interest”.

“When national leadership fails and refuses to solve problems that bedevil the nation head on, we will continually wake up to sad news like that of the late Vice President, Mr Paa Kwasi Amissah Arthur”. Clement Sarfo said.