Drunk driver blocks Presidential convoy

A drunken driver of a 38-seater Benz was arrested at the weekend when he drove and blocked the Presidential convoy on its way to Elmina.
The driver, Ekwow Kakraba, ignored the sound of the siren to stop at a location near Saltpond Junction on the Accra-Cape Coast road. He drove at top speed past another vehicle, which had stopped and came face-to-face with the convoy.
In the process, Kakraba nearly knocked down one of the presidential dispatch riders with his Benz bus, which blocked the view of the motorcade. The dispatch rider veered off the road to escape death.
After causing the stir, Kakraba whose vehicle was fully loaded with passengers, tried to escape, he again ignored instructions from security personnel to stop and sped off. But the bus was pursued and stopped a little distance away.
When Kakraba came out of the bus, he smelled of alcohol. He was handed over to the Anomabu Police nearby. A source at the police station told the 'Times' that charges would be preferred against Kakraba after test had been conducted to check the alcohol level in him.
It is recalled that such reckless driving had led to the untimely death of some presidential dispatch riders in the past two years. The latest victim was Police Sergeant E.K. Owusu, who was crushed to death by a pick-up in Accra, last year, while ahead of the presidential convoy.