Driving the GN Bank van was a gentleman, identified as Nicholas, believed to be in his early 40s.

Nicholas, Citi News gathered, is a driver who is not believed to be mentally unstable, contrary to earlier reports.

Indications are that he may have experienced a symptom of “high fever.” According to Nicholas’ wife, Nicholas vehemently demanded his 3-month old baby from her on Monday morning as she was bathing the baby.

“I refused to give the baby to him, and I run to my neighbour. My husband is a quiet man, he is even an introvert, I don’t know what came over him this morning,” the wife said to Citi News.

Nicholas then rushed out of the house and attacked people he met on the road, including a Mobile Money Agent whose shop is situated along the road.

Residents who knew him chased after him until he picked a shovel and run to the streets.

He is said to have hit the side glass of the GN Bank van which was en route to Nkoranza from Manso Nkwanta. According to the driver of the GN Bank van, he was returning from Manso Nkwanta to fix his brakes upon realizing that it had developed a fault.

“He just met me on the road, I had put on my hazard light and was driving slowly, all I could see was this man who started breaking my passenger glass with the shovel in his hand, so as for me, I got down, because I was very much afraid,” the driver said.

Nicholas was driving the van at top speed, and at a speed ramp at Trede, he collided with three other cars. The owner of a Mercedes-Benz involved in the crash was severely injured and is receiving treatment at the Gary Marvin Hospital at Nkoranza.

Nicholas is currently in police custody.

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By: Lauretta Timah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The coffin had a piece of red cloth, eggs and a dead fowl placed on top of it.

Some residents who expressed shock at the development and said persons behind the act could be protesting the EC’s resolve to  conduct the District Assembly Elections in the area.

Some residents and aspiring assembly members have expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in holding the election and have been calling on authorities to intervene to enable the area to have a functional assembly.

But speaking to Citi News, Regional Director of the EC, George Gyabaa said the scheduled elections will be conducted on Tuesday [11th April, 2017] as all the necessary materials have been dispatched to the communities and appealed to residents and aspiring candidates to conduct themselves peacefully during the polls to enable the two assemblies to have representatives to stir the affairs of the assembly for development.

“District Level Elections is electoral area and district specific. All their development projects have stale because they do not have an assembly, so it’s incumbent for them to elect assembly members so they can form the assemblies to facilitate development” he pleaded.

The Regional EC Boss added that his outfit had also given training to its officers in readiness to execute their mandate and have the assurance that the process will be smooth.

Both the Nkoranza North and South do not have functional assemblies following the resident’s failure to participate in the elections conducted by the EC last year in protest against the DKM and other micro-finance scams that rocked the area.

They invoked curses and banned all political activities in the area to compel authorities to compel the companies who defrauded them to refund their investments.

The presence of the coffin at the EC office comes days after a purification exercise led by fetish priest, Nana Kwabena Nyarko and some youth to reverse the curse that was invoked on the Municipal Electoral Commission (EC), compelling it to suspend the District Level Assembly Election in Nkoranza North and South Districts.

The EC has set 11th April, 2017 for the conduct of the elections.

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By: Mashoud Kombat/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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