Former Asante Kotoko Steve Pollack has ripped into the leadership of the club for failing to compensate victims of the July 12, 2017, fatal accident.
Exactly three years ago, Kotoko was involved in an accident on the Accra-Kumasi highway. The team bus which was on its way to Kumasi after the team had honoured a league match in Tema ran into a stationary vehicle.
The accident claimed the life of deputy equipment manager Thomas Obeng Asare. Others, including Steve Pollack, sustained several degrees of injuries.
”Basically, it’s a human thing that you do that, you come to your employee’s aid when there have been kind of problem to your employee,” he told Wontumi FM in Kumasi.
”You are an employee and you are working for an employer, you expect them (employer) to take care of you whatever that happens to you during your contract or how long you’ve been working there so we are expecting them(Asante Kotoko) to do that.
”Let’s be honest, they are adult, they should know these things; If the tables turn around and it happens to them, how will they feel, three years later and we still haven’t been compensated, what if is them was in the accident, don’t you think they would have already got their compensation?.”
“So always you need to put yourself in other people’s shoes and feel it too, Kotoko needs to compensate us (accident victims).”
