Friday, June 10, 2011

MACHINE CRUSHED A DELTA AGRO LTD WORKER

The Tema Community 1 Police Commander, Superintendent Kwaku Buah has dismissed claims that a twenty –year old young man (name withheld) has been crushed to death by a factory machine at Delta Agro Limited a soap making company based in Tema.
He tells Adom News that this young man is the operator of the factory and line of duty, the he tried removing a foreign material that has mixed with a soap being processed, but the machine pulled him into the mixture.
The unfortunate incident amputated the left hand of the .20 year old boy.
Superintendent Buah says the man is in a critical condition and he has been taken the police hospital for medical attention.
He says Police are in discussion with the management of the company to ascertain the cause of this unfortunate accident.

Meanwhile the workers of the company who are witness to the incidence gave contrasting information.
Adom News men were prevented entry in to the factory and investigations reveal the machine actually crushed the young to death.
Some of the workers indicated that accident happened over an hour before the police arrived to the scene.
The body was put in ambulance and journalist were not allow see the body , but the workers who were at the scene before the incidence happened confirmed that the man is actually dead.
Adom News spoke to some of them and this is what they had to say.


The Production Manager of Delta Agro Limited, Fahed Sabra says the accident was as a result of the victims negligent to obey safety instructions in handling the mixture machine.
He states that the company will reach the family of the deceased to pay the necessary compensation and insurance due to them.
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NO SCHOOL FOR K. BOATENG SDA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Pupils of K. Boateng SDA School lower primary have been on holiday since school reopened for third term.

According to one of the teachers, Madam Kate Boateng the entire school building was washed off by the recent floods coupled with strong winds early in the term.

She explains that the National Disaster Management and Organization NADMO officials constructed a temporal structure for class 4 to 6.

Kate Boateng says the school officials have written officially to the district Chief Executive officer and appropriate authorities in the area but nothing have been done.




The Headmaster of K. Boateng SDA School in the Amenfi Central district in the Western Region, Kwabena Arkah says officials of the committee who were assigned to restructure their building have put less effort in working on the project.


Mr. Kwabena Arkah says the school which has been close down since last month but the DCE who have been occasionally visited the school has not put the necessary structures for the commencement of pupils in the lower primary



Meanwhile, effort to reach the DCE Alex Nti for his side of the story proved fultile.