A grandmother of one of the deceased victims in the fatal car crash that occurred at East Legon in Accra is asking for the full rigors of the law to deal with the Salifu Amoako family.
Twelve-year-old Justine Agbenu was one of two victims who died in the October 12, 2024, accident in which Elrad Salifu Amoako, a 16-year-old son of the founder and leader of Alive Chapel International, Bishop Elisha Salifu Amoako, rammed his mother’s car into another car occupied by the deceased victims and others.
Speaking in an interview with Kofi Adoma Nwanwani of Kofi TV, published on Sunday, October 21, 2024, the grandmother of Justine revealed that her granddaughter was the only child of her parents and her only granddaughter.
She revealed that Justine, on the day of the accident, was returning from a party with her friends when the incident occurred.
She criticized the role of Elrad Amoako in the demise of her granddaughter and demanded that he and his parents face the full extent of the law to serve as a deterrent to others.
“My granddaughter woke up very excited on that Saturday. She prepared her own breakfast. One of her friends had come back from Canada and had brought her a lot of gifts, so she was pumped up. She and her friend Maame Dwomor… He must face the law fully. If not, things like these will continue. I know justice will not bring back my granddaughter, but it will serve as a deterrent to others. We are spoiling our children,” she stated.
She further revealed that she had sent away some emissaries sent to her family house by Bishop Salifu Amoako to plead, noting that some of the people sent by the Bishop to plead on his family’s behalf resorted to making distasteful comments.
“It is not because justice will bring my granddaughter back, but it will serve as a deterrent. We have over-pampered our children now,” she stated.
“What were they coming to do? I don’t have an issue with them; the issue is in the hands of the police. On Sunday, I was informed that one of them called my son-in-law, saying they wanted to come here. He told him that the issue was with the police and so there was no need. His response was that, ‘it has happened already,’” she stated in response when asked about her reasons for sending Bishop Amoako’s emissaries away.
Meanwhile, Kofi Adoma Nwanwani in the video revealed that the late Justine is related to the late Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, a law lecturer at the University of Ghana who was gruesomely murdered in 2020.
The journalist further revealed that Elrad Amoako remains in hospital undergoing recovery following the accident.
His father, Bishop Salifu Amoako, his mother, Mouha Amoako, and Linda Bempah, a sales assistant who has been arrested and charged in connection to the accident, have been granted bail by a court.
Watch the interview below:
