Footballer Farouk Adams Charged With Four More Counts

The court earlier charged the defender Farouk Adams with two counts, careless and inconsiderate driving and negligently causing harm to a male police officer. The additional charges are failing to report the accident to the police and failing to stop to attend to an accident victim. The rest are driving a motor vehicle without valid

road user certificates and also driving a motor vehicle without valid insurance. Inspector Emmanuel Sampson, who presented the case to the Berekum circuit court, presided over by Osei Kofi Amoako said Adams was driving a Toyota Camry vehicle with registration number GW 5882-17 from Sunyani towards Dormaa-Ahenkro.

The incident happened around 19:00GMT on Monday, March 1, 2021 on the Asuotiano Asuhyiae road, but the player was only apprehended on the Tuesday, following police investigations. The Police Constable Mr. Amos Maatey Niganoko of Wamfie Police Station, reportedly died on the spot and his body has since been deposited

at the Dormaa Presby Hospital. According to the police statement, Constable Maatey was on snap check duty with a certain one Sergeant Ibrahim Karim and sought permission to go to town to buy mosquito repellant. But after being gone for hours, colleague officers tried to reach him to no avail. According to the statement, the Police were alerted to a lifeless body suspected to be

an accident victim on the the Asuotiano Asuhyiae road around 7am on Tuesday. When police officers got to the scene, they discovered that the body was that of police constable Maatey and the investigations immediately commenced, leading to the arrest of the Aduana Stars center back. The 31 year old joined Aduana Stars from Elmina Sharks in January 2018 on a two year deal and only recently extended his contract in January 2021 for a further year.