Palm wine tapper dies in accident

Half Assini, (W/R) Sept. 14, GNA — A 35-year old Raffia Palm wine tapper, Mr John Ahomia Ahekiah, died instantly when he fell from a raffia tree he was tapping at Bawia.

The Jomoro District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) John Fugerson Dzineku, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Half Assini on Tuesday.

According to the Police Commander, on August 31, Ahekiah who was tapping his wine, fell from the tree when the bamboo tree, he was using as a ladder broke suddenly.

He said the deceased, who has been in the tapping business for about 20 years hailed from Tandan in the Ellembenle District.

His body has been deposited at the Half Assini Government Hospital morgue for post mortem examination, he said.