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Warrant Officer Jabez Arthur, age 45, and his wife, Warrant Officer Oficer II, Sarah Kuadzi, age 40, died in floods at Adjei Kojo as they were crossing the season rains aboard a military van.
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The family of a military couple who died in the floods last Sunday night urged the government to repair deplorable structures to prevent future disasters.
"They should not be long in repairing this road … that's all we say … they should fix it," Kingsley Eyram King Kuadzi, brother of the deceased military woman, W.O II, Sarah Kuadzi.
Warrant Officer Jabez Arthur, age 45, and his wife, Warrant Officer Oficer II, Sarah Kuadzi, 40 years old, died in the floods in Adjei Kojo while they were crossing the rains in a military van.
Photo: The end Mandate of Officer II Sarah Kuadzi
In his account of the tragedy, Kingsley Kuadzi told Joseph Opoku Gakpo of JoyNews that the couple were returning from a pardon service after the funeral.
The rains had hidden a ditch to their left as a truck was coming to their right along the highway to Adjei-Kojo near Ashiaman in the Greater Accra region. After the military van survived a shock on the road, the driver turned left to avoid the truck.
The vehicle fell and tipped into the ditch, which expands into a culvert that carries water into the southwestern part of Tema. The high-speed floods overwhelmed the pair of soldiers in the front seat of the pickup truck.
Two other people, Alice and Georgina Arhin, 35 years old who were in the bucket of the van, managed to get through the flood to get safe, but an 11-month-old baby who was with them n? has still not been found.
Their death brings to 12 the number of deaths since the beginning of the rainy season in Ghana.
It is also a season of renewed criticism about the country's ill-conceived drainage system, poor roads, and weak enforcement.
The brother of the deceased military woman said that the government should not wait for agitations or disasters before responding to calls to repair the roads.
He spoke of the spontaneous violence that occurred in Adentan in November 2018 after unfinished walkways left residents at the mercy of motorists on the N1 road, killing several people.
Kingsley Kuadzi said the government's response by earmarking funds for bridge repairs showed "money is there".
The potholes on the Adjei-Kojo road near Ashiaman can therefore be corrected if the government is engaged, he said. "I do not know why there is … I'm even short of words," he told the reporter.
He paid tribute to the military couple, calling his sister "the definition of the warrior of prayer" and her husband, "a fantastic … wonderful gentleman".
"There is someone in this world who thinks we will all go to heaven, that is it. She and her husband, "he said.
He added that his brother-in-law had promised him a smart TV after he returned from a peacekeeping operation in Israel.
The parent, a consulting psychologist, said the family accepted death as the sovereignty of God at stake.
The couple left a 12 year old son.
National Defense Minister Domnic Nitiwul, who visited the family, called the floods national embarrbadment. But he badured the family that the government was committed to solving the annual flood problem.
"No matter how much we have to make sure no one gets this kind of problem, we will do it," he told the family.
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