Ghana – Koforidua Circuit Court in the Eastern Region has remanded a commercial driver for stabbing a passenger to death over social distance.
Eastern Region Police PRO ASP Ebenezer Tetteh speaking to 3news stated that two brothers boarded of the 32-year-old man vehicle a day after president Akufo-Addo lifted the partial lockdown imposed on some parts of the country.
He said the accused person was said to have picked passengers more than the required number approved for commercial buses as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak.
According to the police, the act of the driver resulted in a quarrel between the driver’s mate and the two brothers until they alighted.
One of the brothers slammed the door of the vehicle which infuriated the driver who was already angry. He stepped out from the vehicle to fight the brothers which he ended stabbing them.
The two brothers were rushed to Koforidua Central Hospital for treatment where one passed on with the other responding to treatment.
