Mauritius Prime Minister meets tragic moment in Tamale

 

Mr Charles Xavier-Luc Duval, Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius,  had his visit to the Northern Region truncated,  when a dispatch rider leading the entourage from the Savelugu Municipality to the Tamale Metropolis was involved in a gory accident.

Corporal Moses Osei Tutu, a dispatch rider of the Tamale Motor, Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service had a head-on-collision with a tipper truck between the Bawa Barracks and the Kamina barracks on the Savelugu-Tamale Highway,  and later died at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.

Several mourners,  mostly police personnel,  trooped to the hospital where his body had been deposited at the morgue to pay him their last respects.

The Police motor dispatch that he was riding,  caught fire together with the tipper truck immediately after the accident,  while the driver whose identity was not disclosed,  was receiving treatment at the Tamale Teaching Hospital under police guard.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command,  who confirmed the incident to the Ghana News Agency said,  the family had already been briefed about the tragic incident.

He explained that the rider who was in the company of another dispatch rider, were leading the entourage from Savelugu when the tipper truck ignored police signals and vied off his lane, hitting Corporal Osei Tutu to the ground.

He said the deceased sustained various degrees of injuries and multiple fractures leading to his death.

Mr Duval who had earlier addressed a durbar of chiefs and people of Savelugu in the Savelugu-Nanton Municipality, said  the Mauritian Government had made funding available to commence work on the 250-million-dollar sugarcane manufacturing factory in the area.

He assured the people that many jobs would be created to give great prosperity to the people to enhance their living standards.

Alhaji Limuna Mohammed-Muniru, Northern Regional Minister, assured the people that government was committed through the public private partnership,  to create more jobs to reduce poverty, illiteracy and disease, which were the common enemies in the north.

He said the region was ready to co-operate with any organization that was ready to bring development to the area, and urged the Ministry of Trade and Industry to release funding for the project to take off immediately.

The Yoo-Naa, Naa Abubakari Mahama, chief of Savelugu, enskinned the Prime Minister under a name interpreted to mean Sugarcane Development Chief.

The chief commended the Mauritian Government for its investment in the area, and urged the youth to take advantage to develop themselves for the coming opportunities.

GNA