Driver fined GH₵960 for destroying Akufo-Addo’s fence wall

A 46-year-old driver is set to pay a fine of GH₵960 or face an eight-week jail term for destroying the fence wall of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Nima residence.

Antaru Issaka also destroyed a telephone pole close to the President’s house.

He was slapped with careless and inconsiderate driving, causing damage, driving without a licence, using a motor vehicle with an expired licence policy, and using a motor vehicle with an expired roadworthy certificate.

The Ghana News Agency reported that Issaka pleaded guilty after the charges were read to him. He was convicted on his own plea by the Kaneshie District Court.

The facts presented in court by Sergeant Apeweh Achana suggested the incident happened on May 15, 2021, at about 3:30 pm.

The convict was driving a Mercedes-Benz ML 320 with registration number GS 5885 Z from Nima roundabout, heading towards Nima Junction through the El-Waleed Bin Talaa road.

Sergeant Achana narrated, on reaching a section of the road near the residence of the president, Issaka alleged that the vehicle’s brake failed and to avoid hitting the vehicles in front of him, he veered off the road and rammed into the fence wall of the President’s residence, causing damage to the wall and a telephone pole.

After investigations, the convict was found to be an unlicensed driver. The vehicle’s insurance policy had also expired, and it had no roadworthy certificate.