TAXI DRIVER KILLS CYCLIST, DUMPS BODY...With connivance of passengers (PAGE 34, MIRROR, DEC 12)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Prestea

A taxi driver whose vehicle collided with a motorbike, killing the rider in the process, decided to dump the body and the bike in a nearby bush, instead of taking the body to hospital and immediately reporting the accident to the police.
The driver later told the police that two passengers aboard his cab at the time of the accident had helped him carry the body of the deceased rider, Kweku Bukro, into the boot of his Opel Vectra taxi cab, with registration number ER 7889 U, and dumped the body and the bike a few metres away from the scene of the accident.
The accident occurred near Nananko in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region.
The driver failed to report it to the police the same day but did that the following day, without giving the police the full details of the accident.
The taxi driver, Kwesi Asante, was arrested after initial police investigations, while efforts are being made to apprehend the two passengers who allegedly helped him dump the body and the bike.
According to the police, after Asante had been arrested, he confessed that his vehicle had collided with a motorbike and the rider had died. He also added that some passengers on board the taxi had helped him carry the body into the boot.
Initially when Asante reported the accident to the police, he was issued with a form to attend hospital, but he failed to return to the police to help them in their investigations.
The police later got him to take them to the scene of the accident.
The police team, led by the Prestea/Huni-Valley District Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ben Wonkyi, then decided to conduct a search around the scene of the accident, during which it was discovered that Bukro’s body had been dumped in the bush and his bike at another location.
Asante was then arrested and placed in police custody.
According to the District Commander, Bukro’s body had been deposited at the Wassa Akropong Government Hospital in the Wassa Amenfi District of the Western Region.
DSP Wonkyi said Bukro’s motorbike had also been sent to the Wassa Akropong Police Station, adding that Asante was currently in police custody helping the police in their investigations.