Ghanaian lower-tier club involved in nasty ‘Aboboyaa’ accident

Ghanaian juvenile side, Manso Soccer Babies were involved in a deadly motor accident on Saturday afternoon after the rickshaw ‘aboboyaa’ they were travelling in for a league match collided with a vehicle, leaving several players seriously injured.

The rickshaw, which is also known locally as ‘Adeideita’, collided with an oncoming vehicle as the team was trekking from Kumasi to play a league match at Atwima Bebu.

Players and officials of the team, packed in the rickshaw have been rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for immediate medical attention following the various degrees of injuries sustained with some serious after the accident occured at Bebu.

Relatives of the young players and worried football fans are trooping to the hospital to ascertain the injuries suffefred by the young players who are aspiring to be world-class players.

This is the latest of the such accidents involivng young Ghanaian footballers being transported in rickety vehicles for league matches in the Ashanti Region.

It would be recalled that, at least six teenage footballers were killed and 30 others injured in a road accident in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region in September last year.

Edmund Nyamekye, commander of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department, told the media that four of the injured had been rushed to hospital and were in critical condition.

The accident occurred when the footballers aged 12-15 were on their way back from Afrancho, a community in the Ashanti region, the commander said.