Former President John Mahama has donated a GHS 20,000 to the relatives of the victims of the Offinso-Aboffuor bus accident, which killed more than 20 people.
On Monday, November 15, 2021, a delegation led by former Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Limuna Muniru, in the company of the MP for Bole-Bamboi, Alhaji Yusif Sulemana, former MP for Daboya-Mankarigu, Obei Mahama Shaibu, former MP for Damongo, Adam Mutawakilu Galus, and others, made the donation on behalf of the former president.
The disaster happened in the early hours of Monday, November 1, 2021, in Offinso Abofour in the Offinso South District of the Ashanti Region, killing 21 persons and injuring others.
The casualties were largely head potters from the Savannah Region’s North Gonja area who were going home after work.
Before visiting the wounded at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the group visited four localities to give contributions to the relatives of the dead.
Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, in an interview after the donation, said the former President was saddened by the terrible incident, which he characterized as a national tragedy.
Alhaji Limuna urged the government to act to halt the migration of northern youth to the south by instituting economically feasible policies in the region.
“These were people who were going to look for their daily bread, all of them are youth in their twenties, it is a lesson that all governments should be looking at policies that can empower the youth so that they will stop the movement from the north because we have vast land, we have a lot of things that can keep them home.”
According to Alhaji Limuna, the NDC‘s 2020 platform offered measures that, if executed, would drastically curb youth migration from Ghana’s north to south.
“If you look at our 2020 manifesto, we had a lot of programs, even just using agribusiness alone that will be able to keep them, and they will make enough for their families.”
On behalf of the deceased families and the wounded, Tampulitina Wusah Tikah, Chief of Tampluma, thanked the former president for remembering them in their hour of need.
“I thank the former president and all of you for remembering us at this time that we are bereaved, though you are not in power you have come to support us, we know you will do more if you have power. Tell John Mahama that we thank him, and we pray and believe God will grant him his heart desires to help us even better.”
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