The Aduana Stars central
defender, Farouk Adams, who has been arrested for a hit and run incident
that resulted in the death of a policeman will be arraigned in court on
Thursday.
He will be appearing before the Fiapre Circuit Court
for allegedly knocking a policeman down and leaving him to die at Asushyiae
near Asuotiano in the Dormaa East District of the Bono Region.
The police are
charging him on two counts of careless and inconsiderate driving and negligently
causing harm.
Adams was
processed and sent to the court Wednesday afternoon at about 2:45 PM
reports Graphic Online’s reporter, Biiya Mukusah Ali but when they arrived at
the court, the court had already closed.
He has therefore been placed in
police custody to be sent back to the court Thursday.
Earlier Thursday, the Bono
Regional Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Kennedy Adusei told Graphic Online that
police sent the accused person to the Wamfie District Court but could not
succeed in prosecuting the case and proceeded to Berekum court where they again
failed before sending him to the regional police command.
It was at the regional police command that he was
processed for the Fiapre court.
The policeman, identified as Constable Amos Mattey
and stationed at the Wamfie Police station, is said to have left his duty post
to purchase something but never returned until he was found dead on Tuesday,
March 2, 2021 morning in what appeared to be a hit-and-run.
The Aduana Stars’ central
defender Adams was said to be driving a Red Toyota Camry with registration
number GW 5882-17 from Sunyani to Dormaa-Ahenkro when he allegedly knocked down
the officer who was on a motorbike and dragged him into a bush.
Information gathered from the
Bono Regional Police Command, indicates that the player alleged that he knocked
down an animal that crossed his car but when he got down he could not find
anything.
But the police accused Adams of
removing the uniform of the police officer, leaving him with his inner wear on
the roadside in an attempt to disguise his identity as a policeman.
He is said to have later parked
the car at a nearby fuel station where, he informed the car owner about the
accident and proceeded to the Wamfie Polyclinic for medical attention, because
he had sustained some injuries.
He reportedly later went back to
the accident scene with the car owner but again found nothing.
He then went to Dormaa-Ahenkro
in a different vehicle while a mechanic moved the accident vehicle to Sunyani
on the orders of the actual owner.
According to the police, Adams
later told the police that it was his friend who later told him the incident
had caused the death of one person before he reported to the police at Wamfie
for his arrest.
The body has been deposited at
the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital while investigations.
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