Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By
William Yaw Owusu
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Kobina Ade Coker, the Greater Accra
Regional Chairman of National Democratic Congress (NDC) last Saturday,
September 27, did the unthinkable when he impounded a truck loaded with musical
instruments and parked it at his residence following an accident at the Tetteh
Quarshie Interchange in Accra.
The Kia Rhino with registration ER 1314
-14 was said to have had contact with the NDC capo’s black Toyota Thundra but
instead of reporting the matter to the police, Ade Coker took the law into his
own hands and decided to seize the car.
Truck
stranded
The Kia truck is still stranded at Ade
Coker’s Christian Village residence at East Legon and left at the mercy of the
weather with the instruments in it.
The driver, Eric Danquah, 48, narrated
to Daily Guide on Tuesday that he was heading towards the interchange from the
Fiesta Royale Hotel traffic light at about 8pm when his vehicle appeared to
have come into contact with a Toyota Thundra which was almost branching to the
Villagio section of the interchange to the Airport link.
“I stopped immediately on the Tema/Madina
stretch of the interchange and approached the occupant who had already taken
the Villagio/Airport section,” he said, adding “the moment I got to him he
shouted ‘do you want to kill me?’, ‘do you know who I am?’…I am Ade Coker!”
“The moment he mentioned Ade Coker, I became
frightened and decided not to challenge him because I realized he might be a
very powerful person in the country. More so, his name rang a bell.”
License
seized
The driver said the NDC capo requested
for his license and when he handed it over to him, Mr. Ade Coker threw it into
his Thundra and locked the door.
“He demanded that one of my boys should
join his car but we refused and he then asked us to follow him after reversing
in the wrong direction and going ahead of us while we followed him as ordered.”
He said he led them to an area in East
Legon called Christian Village where Mr. Ade Coker parked his car and opened
his main gate which is remote-controlled and ordered him to drive into the
house.
“When I parked, he shouted the name Atta
who appeared to me like the caretaker of the place and he asked him to write my
number on a piece of paper and then asked me to go away and he also sped off,”
he said, adding “I was only able to pick a keyboard and a microphone and no
amount of persuasion could change his mind.”
Text
message
Mr. Danquah said on Sunday at church in
Aburi he received a text message indicating Ade Coker’s number, asking him to
contact the NDC Chairman but he said he came to Accra on Monday to report the
matter to the Airport Police.
A source at the police confirmed the
incident and said when they contacted Mr. Ade Coker he admitted the incident but
told the law enforcers that he sent his car to a Toyota workshop and that Danquah
was supposed to pay him GH¢2,000 before the truck could be released.
Ade
Coker speaks
When reached on telephone, Mr. Ade Coker
confirmed that he was keeping the truck in his house and said “the guy nearly
killed me on the motorway.”
Asked why he did not invite the police
to the scene to conduct investigation as the law required, he said “I was going
to call the police and he begged me not to do so…I should have reported to the
police when he was begging me? A police car was even passing but he was begging
me so I let it pass.”
He said “we agreed by mutual consent
that he should park his truck in my house and then when I fix it he will pay
for the damage. He gave me a photocopy of his license and I told him come and
park here because I don’t know where to find him when he runs away. I told him
to come on Monday so I give him the estimate and he ran to you in the media.”
Damage
to vehicle
“Come and see the damage to my car. I
can’t even get the doors to buy. I have to import them and instead of him
coming to beg me he is running around with his story. When you do this I am
bound to take my pound of flesh.”
He said he was not ready to send Daily
Guide pictures of the damaged part of the vehicle saying “the gentleman should
come and apologize to me. If he hasn’t got money to pay he should come and beg
me and he will drive his car away.”
Apologize!
“You should have led him to me to say Oh!
Mr. Coker this man hasn’t got money to pay so kindly forgive him then I will
understand but you are rather encouraging these people,” he told this reporter.
“He should have come to my house to
check on my health then I can consider him. After all, what is GH¢2,000?”
When Daily Guide insisted that he should
have called the police to assess the situation to know whose fault it was, he replied
“I was in front of him…Listen to me I am older than him and you.”
“I am not interested in whether my side
of the story be told. Somebody was going to kill me and you should have told
him to go and burn sea,” adding “I am not going to use his car but I must have
security…I have not impounded his car…it was by mutual consent…is this also
news?”
He added “I want the police to come and
take it away and make sure he settles my bill. This is no big deal. As for you
my life is not important so he can kill me a run to you in the media.”
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