Ghana: VRA’s Engineer’s Death- The Inside Story

Staff of Ghana’s largest hydropower producer, Volta River Authority (VRA), are mourning the death of one of the finest engineers of the company.

Eric Dogbey, 47, an engineer of Volta River Authority (VRA) at the Kpong Generation Station in the Eastern Region, died in a strange circumstance on Saturday, May 2.

Initial media reports suggested that Eric Dogbey was driving an unregistered Toyota Corolla vehicle at a top speed with one occupant from Juapong to Akuse when he had an accident and died.

However, energynewsafrica.com’s sources within VRA indicated that Mr. Dogbey left the company’s Kpong Generation Station and was heading to Akuse where he lived.

They continued that the late Eric had two occupants onboard-one seated at the front seat while the other sat behind him.

According to the sources, Eric Dogbey stopped the vehicle few metres after VRA security check point near the Kpong Farms, and the occupant at the front seat alighted leaving the one at the rear.

Energynewsafrica.com’s sources revealed that few minutes after the occupant, whose name is not yet known had alighted, the vehicle suddenly sped off, crossed the road to the opposite lane and run into a canal by the roadside.

Both sustained serious degree of injuries and were rushed to the Akuse Government Hospital for treatment, but Eric Dogbey was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to sources, the other occupant who sustained injuries is still on admission and is responding to treatment.

Contrary to reports that Eric Dogbey died because of accident, it emerged that he was shot, leading to his death.

Doctors at the Akuse Government Hospital, where Eric Dogbey was taken to for treatment, detected that there was one entry gun shot at the right back close to his side ribs.

“The gun shot was within the vehicle as the windscreens were all rolled up,” one of the sources explained.

It is unclear who might have shot him, but energynewsafrica.com’s sources averred that looking at the direction of the gun shot it couldn’t have been Mr Eric Dogbey who shot himself.

Preliminary investigation suggest that it was the excruciating pain of the  gun shot that terrified the deceased to step on the accelerator which caused the car to move uncontrollably.

Eric Dogbey is said to be one of the most experienced and huge pillar in the practise of engineering in the Kpong Generation Station of VRA.

The body of the deceased has since been deposited at the mortuary.

Investigations into the incident is ongoing by the Akuse police.

Source: www.energynewsafrica.com