Dead Headteacher Wins In Tarkwa Nsuaem District-Level Elections By A Single Vote

• The late Assembly Member for the Tebrebe Electoral Area in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality secured victory in the local government polls
• The deceased assemblyman, Manasseh Addison Sackey, won the elections by just one vote
• Sackey drowned with one other person after a canoe accident on December 5, 2023

Manasseh Addison Sackey, the late Assembly Member for the Tebrebe Electoral Area in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, won his district-level elections by just one vote.

Sackey’s posthumous victory in the election shocked many.

The headteacher at the Aboponiso MA School died after drowning in a canoe accident on December 5, 2023.

Sackey's victory is viewed as even more remarkable because he won by a single vote.

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In a separate story, YEN.com.gh reported that multiple people died after a road crash at the bottom of a hill at Ho in the Volta Region.

The crash occurred around 4pm on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, when a minibus travelling towards Ho ran into a heavy-duty truck ascending the hill.

Reports suggest the bus may have suffered a break failure when descending the hill, leading to the head-on collision.

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A woman was killed and a baby was critically injured after a truck crashed into the Suame Divisional Police Headquarters building in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

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A police officer and an SHS student died in a road crash involving a tanker truck and a motorcycle.

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The road crash occurred along the Kumasi-Accra highway near Suhum on Thursday, November 9, 2023.

The crash happened because the truck driver was racing with another tanker truck.

Source: YEN.com.gh