The police have arrested the Founder and General Overseer of Alive Chapel International, Bishop Elisha Salifu Amoako, and his wife in connection with the East Legon road crash involving their son.
The accident claimed the lives of two females, both aged 12 last Saturday in Accra.
The Bishop and his wife, Mouha Amoako, are assisting the police with investigation.
The arrest of the clergyman and his wife was announced by the police in a press statement sighted by crimecheckghana.org.
In the statement, the Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Grace Ansah-Akrofi stated that investigations established that last Saturday, Elrad Salifu Amoako, aged 16, was driving a Jaguar SUV with registration number GN 7801 -20 with one other occupant and rammed it into a 4×4 Acura vehicle with registration number GR 2542-23 resulting in both cars catching fire and burning beyond recognition.
One Joseph Ackah drove the Acura with four other occupants on the Mensah Wood Street at East Legon.
ACP Ansah-Akrofi said investigations further revealed that three of the five victims in the Acura vehicle during the accident were rescued and the other two, identified as Justine Agbenu and Maame Dwomoh, both 12 years old, lost their lives.
She assured the public of thorough investigation into the crash.
Meanwhile, a team from the Police Management Board, led by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), George Akuffo Dampare, has visited the bereaved family and the injured to commiserate with them.
ACP Ansah-Akrofi stated that two of the rescued victims, who sustained minor injuries, were treated and discharged while the third is still on admission receiving medical treatment.
She said the suspect driver and the other occupant in the Jaguar Vehicle were also rescued and currently at the hospital.
Rudolph Nandi
