SDA HOLDS REQUIEM FOR ACCIDENT VICTIMS

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A line up of some of the caskets containing the mortal remains of the victims with their respective portraits attached
The Seventh Day Adventists Church has held a burial service at Ahwiaa near Kumasi for the nine members who died through road accident on Easter Saturday at Tano Odumasi on the Kumasi-Asante Mampong highway.  

 At the service were nine caskets that contained the mortal remains of the victims which were later handed over to the bereaved families for separate burial.

 The dead were all members of the Meduma North congregation of the SDA church.

 At the heavily patronized solemn burial service were leaders and members from the various Conferences of the church, members of the respective bereaved families, loved ones and sympathizers. 

Also present was a delegation of the government that included the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Kojo Bonsu, the Sekyere South and Kwabre East District Chief Executives. 

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the main opposition party, NPP, Benard Antwi Boasiako and the immediate past General Secretary of the party, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie also led the party’s delegation while the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, ACP Ampofo Duku represented the Regional Police Command. 

The sermon which was delivered by a Pastor of the SDA church in Cameroun on the theme: “When the God’s Way Clashes with the Ways of Man”, was used to pray to repose the souls of the deceased to God, divine healing for the injured as well as God’s protection for the members alive. 

On behalf of the government, the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Kojo Bonsu, pledged to take up the cost of all the caskets while Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie donated a cash of five thousand Ghana Cedis for the Presidential hopeful of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo. 

It would be recalled that on Saturday, the 4th of this month, a Mercedes Benz Sprinter bus conveying some members of the Meduma North Congregation of the SDA Church from Agona in the Sekyere South district of Ashanti, ran into a ditch at Tano Odumasi in the driver’s attempt to avoid crashing into a taxi cab that had wrongfully over taken it. 

The accident resulted in the death of eight of the passengers on the spot and another one later at the hospital. 

Among the dead were a man and his two sons with the wife still receiving medical care at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. 

 The accident victims took part in the inauguration of a new Conference of the SDA church known as the Mountain View Conference at Agona. 

This is contrary to speculations that they had attended an Easter Convention.



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