{"id":318727,"date":"2017-05-13T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318727"},"modified":"2017-05-13T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:00:50","slug":"advertisers-association-to-help-billboard-collapse-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318727","title":{"rendered":"Advertisers Association to\u00a0help billboard collapse victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Advertisers Association of Ghana (AAG) has disclosed to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> it will impress on its member to provide support to the victim of a collapsed billboard.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Reynolds Yeboah has since been paralysed in both legs after a billboard collapsed on him in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently seeking that the Human Rights Court awards him 4.5 million cedis for aggravated damages due to the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director of the Advertisers Association of Ghana, Francis Dadzie tells <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> the outfit will work to improve the welfare of the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the material time, the company wasn\u2019t a member but it has since joined our association\u2026But from a moral and social responsibility point of view, we will try to speak to him to see how he could do that,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dadzie however indicated of some possible constraints in compelling the company to provide insurance cover to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>His reasons are that at the time of the incident, the company in question wasn\u2019t a registered member of the advertisers association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a member, we would definitely compel you to obtain an insurance cover to take care of such issues. But now that the owner wasn\u2019t a member of our association at the time of the incident, I do not know how we could compel him to correct the wrongs that he may have committed when he was not a member,\u201d the Executive Director further asserted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billboard collapses on Patrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Reynolds Yeboah, was, until the accident, a student and surveillance operator at a casino in Tema.<\/p>\n<p>He was hit by a billboard belonging to M Dex Company Limited, an outdoor advertising company.<\/p>\n<p>Yeboah was a second-year student of the Zenith University College when the incident occurred on April 28, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He has, as a result, been rendered completely paralysed and unable to continue his education, fend for his parents, control urine and bowel movements, among other health complications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victim sues company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patrick has since sued an advertising company and two others for negligence which has rendered him paralysed in both legs.<\/p>\n<p>Attached to the suit as defendants are the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA), the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advertisers Association of Ghana (AAG) has disclosed to Citi Business News it will impress on its member to provide support to the victim of a collapsed billboard. Patrick Reynolds Yeboah has since been paralysed in both legs after a billboard collapsed on him in April 2016. 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