TRAGEDY HITS FAMILY (MIRROR, LEAD STORY, MARCH 13, 2010)

From Joe Okyere, Aboransa

Tragedy struck the Atwea family of Aboransa in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) Municipality last Friday evening when a bus ran over two heads of the family who had arrived from Nsuaem, near Tarkwa, to attend the funeral of their late ebusuapanyin (clan head).
The two, Mr. J.K. Brehun and Adjoa Koflah, both in their 80s, were crossing the road when the Accra-Takoradi bus, with registration number GC 4883 Z, ran over them, killing them instantly.
Their bodies have been deposited at the Central Regional Hospital morgue for autopsy.
According to a family spokesman, the two, who were the ebusuapanyin and obaahemaa (queen) of the Atwea family at Nsuaem, Tarkwa, had arrived at Aboransa on that ill-fated day for the funeral of their late ebusuapanyin, J.E. Quayson, and were in the company of a third person who was escorting them to the house of another kin.
The spokesman said the family escort who foresaw the danger asked the two to wait for the bus to pass before crossing but Koflah, who did not sense the danger ahead, held the hand of Brehun and pulled him along to cross the road only to be run over by the bus, resulting in their instant death.
The accident threw the town into a state of uncontrollable wailing.
A number of residents who spoke to The Mirror called on the KEEA Municipal Assembly to erect speed humps at Aboransa to prevent such accidents as drivers ignored the speed limit when entering or leaving the town.
In another development, an eight-year-old school pupil of the Ajumako-Kokoben Presbyterian Primary School, Attah- Essuman, who was knocked down by a speeding vehicle last Friday, died the next day at the Our Lady of Grace Catholic Hospital at Breman Asikuma.