afrol News, 16 November - Ghanaian Presidential motorcade is once again involved in another accident, two days after President John Kufuor escaped unhurt when his convoy was involved in an accident while he was on his way to the Presidential Palace.

The President’s car was not directly involved.

A motorbike rider in the convoy of President John Agyekum Kufuor was reported to have fallen off his bike on Thursday night after slipping on a patch of oily ground.

According to Ghana's Information Minister, Oboshie Sai-Coffie, who described the incident as a minor one, the dispatch rider is already back at work after medical examination.

“This is no issue to bother the presidency whatsoever, even though it came two days after the President narrowly escaped death when a speeding Benz Saloon car rammed his car while on his way to his office at the Castle, Osu.”

Ghanaian leader’s car was struck by a black Mercedes coming from the opposite direction, at a major intersection between the Kotoka International Airport and the 37 Military Hospital last Wednesday morning while on his way to the Presidential Palace.

The vehicle carrying Kufuor was said to have rolled over several times before resting on the sidewalk.

“People around rushed to help his security men to pull him out,” claimed an eyewitness, adding that the Ghanaian leader alighted from the vehicle holding his head.

The driver of the car that struck President Kufuor’s car, a 51-year-old Thomas Osei, the Managing Director of Pure Constructions Ltd., is to appear in court.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Osei was found to have been drunk with alcohol far above permissible levels.

Kufuor is serving his final term in office.

By S. Makalo in Accra, Ghana

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