My Son Did Not Kill Anyone With A Gun; Stop The Noise – Bishop Salifu Amoako

Bishop Salifu Amoako, father of the unlicensed teenage driver who crashed his parent’s vehicle into another vehicle and killed two girl aged 12 has said his son has not used a gun to kill anyone so Ghanaians should tone down on the public outcry and backlash.

“My son did not carry a gun to kill anybody. He involved himself in a terrible accident, and I am not the one who did it, nor his mother. It is my name, that is why people are talking,” Bishop Salifu Amoako noted in an address to his church members on Sunday, exacty a day after the burial of one of the two killed girls.

Bishop Salifu Amoako noted further: “If this had been an Okada [motorcycle] accident, who would mention it? It’s only because of my name,” he added, urging people to stop talking and trust that “the Lord will intervene.”

His comments have not gone down well with a section of the public and it seems to have rather heightened the backlash.

Bishop Salifu Amoako, in his address to his congregation, expressed his disapproval over reports that some of them physically attacked and assaulted journalists who were at the courts on official duty when he appeared before the courts over the accident case.

“Control yourselves, ACI family, I urge you to have self-control. Some of you came to the court to disgrace me there. You didn’t behave wisely. You have added more battles to my battles already. What you came to do at the court is very disgraceful. You shouldn’t have done that.

“Do you know the damage you have done in my life? Now I am fighting what has happened to me and the media is fighting me. The case is now in the court. We don’t go to court to fight, but we go there to interpret the law”, he noted

“Some of you were lucky that you were not arrested. Some of you went there to mess up. By now, you should be in jail. I have not called you to come and fight for me. Now listen to me, I have not called you to come and fight for me,” Bishop Salifu Amoako stated.

Who Born You By Mistake?

The development has resurrected an old video in which the father of the suspect, a popular Ghanaian Christian leader by name Bishop Elisha Salifu Amoako was heard saying that he himself breaks road traffic regulations in Ghana and that the Ghana Police Service dare not stop him for questioning.

“If you follow American Police, you will never drive.  They are always on your nerves. In my country, when the Police see me, they salute.  They call me General Sir; General Sir, and I am gone. Without a Driver’s License, I have been driving. Without a car number plate, I have been driving.  Who born you by mistake to stop me; because if you stop me, I will call your boss.  I will call your boss”, Bishop Salifu Amoako was heard saying in the video which appears to have been taken during one of his church activities outside Ghana. 

Meanwhile social media, especially Facebook, Snapchat and TikToc, is awash with viral videos of Bishop Salifu Amoako’s son who caused the accident, -Elrad Salifu Amoako- recklessly driving other vehicles at an unbelievably top speed way above accepted limits in residential areas.

Elrad Salifu Amoako is believed to have self recorded the said videos and published them on social media. His reasons remain unknown for now.

The attitude of Elrad Salifu Amoako  captured in the videos suggest his style of driving last Saturday, as captured on CCTV, was not the first time the teenage boy was driving in such a reckless and lawless manner.