Acting IGP involved in accident

Mr. Ernest Owusu Poku, Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) sustained injuries when the official vehicle in which he was travelling got involved in an accident at Pampamsu near Teacher Mante on the Nsawam road at the weekend.

He has since been sent to the Police hospital where he is responding to treatment.

Briefing the Ghana News Agency, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Eklu of the Public Relations Unit at Police Headquarters said the IGP was returning from a regional tour in the Brong Ahafo Region when the accident occurred.

He said the bodyguard, driver and aide of the IGP were also injured and are receiving treatment. Two other cars in the IGP's convoy escaped unscathed.