The Director of Operations of the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), Samuel Awuku, is nursing his wounds at a medical facility in Koforidua after escaping a bizarre accident in Accra. His movement to Koforidua followed an initial management in a private hospital in Ashongman, where he was earlier rushed to as he bled profusely following the accident. Although a weird accident in which he drove into a gutter, followed by a bang and the disintegration of his windscreen, it is a narration of what preceded this stage which raises eyebrows. Speaking to DAILY GUIDE, Samuel Awuku, a voice representing the civil society organization’s opposition to a number of government policies on the airwaves, disclosed that the watchman in his house told him that during the previous week, a military vehicle pulled up at his Taifa residence and a couple of soldiers onboard proceeded to make an enquiry about the occupant of the house. With the watchman feigning ignorance about the answer, as he does not live there, the vehicle left with the occupants, but not before peeping into the house to glean some details perhaps, he said. “On 1st July, six friends of mine at the Oman FM radio station joined me in my residence to have fun. The watchman told me that as we were in the house, a blue Police Mahindra vehicle drove to the place to ask what was going on in the house,” he said. Continuing he stated, “I left the house for a jamboree at the Commonwealth Hall at about 11pm. As I drove back home after the engagement, I noticed on reaching the Atomic Junction, around Haatso, that a vehicle was trailing me. "I continued driving until I reached the Police checkpoint and told the men I usually exchange pleasantries with that I was tired and so could not tarry a while. "On reaching a curve around Taifa, I noticed some speed ramps. Once a while, I peeped to find out if the vehicle was still on my trail and discovered it still was.” He said he did not use his normal route to his residence and as he drove along the alternative one, he peeped once more to observe the strange vehicle still on his trail or so it seemed. “Without warning, I skidded off the road and drove into a nearby gutter and into the wall of a house followed by a bang. My windscreen gave way as the vehicle on my heels sped past without stopping,” he disclosed. Some Good Samaritans nearby, he said, came over to him and placed him in a Golf saloon car and drove him to a neighbourhood clinic which, unfortunately, was closed. “I was driven to a private hospital at Ashongman which runs a 24-hour service. The doctor stopped the bleeding and administered a painkiller on me,” he told Daily Guide. According to Sammy Awuku, a staff of Oman FM, Kwabena Kwakye, who was by his bedside, had to leave at about 1am when it was obvious that he would be detained for some time. “I am currently undergoing physiotherapy in a private medical facility in Koforidua, having made a verbal complaint already to the Kwabenya Police Station where I was issued with a medical attention form,” he said. He stopped short of fearing foul play, preferring only to settle on “the telltale narrations by the watchman which are mindboggling.” Source: Daily Guide/Ghana