President reprimands Central Regional Minister

President John Agyekum Kufuor has reprimanded Mr. Isaac Edumadze, Central Regional Minister about his behaviour towards a taxi driver.

Mr Edumadze was said to have seized a taxi at Suhum in the Eastern Region last week accusing the driver of bad driving and instead of reporting the incident to the police there, he rather ordered his (Minister's) driver to send the car to Cape Coast and parked it at his residence.

A statement signed by Ms Elizabeth Ohene, Government Spokesman in Accra on Friday said the President was displeased and disapproved of the Minister's action.

The statement said the President expressed the sentiments when he met the Minister in Accra.

"Over enthusiasm is not an acceptable excuse of a possible breach of the law," the President was quoted as telling Mr Edumadze.

The statement said the President has accepted the assurance of the Regional Minister that nothing similar would occur again.