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Ghana avoided a major international embarrassment, over the weekend after a vehicle in which the visiting Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius was travelling quickly diverted to avoid being hit by a tipper truck in Tamale. The tipper truck, however, claimed the life of Corporal Moses Osei Tutu, a dispatch rider of the Tamale Motor, Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service. The accident occurred between the Bawa barracks and the Kamina barracks on the Savelugu � Tamale Highway after the tipper truck driver, driving at top speed, ignored police signals and veered off his lane, crushing into the motor of Corporal Osei Tutu who was leading the Deputy Premier�s convoy. The accident is coming just eight months after another high profile visiting personality, Vyachelsa Mikhaailovic Lebedev, the Chief Justice or Russia, got involved in an accident at Peki-Sanga on the Ho-Accra Road while returning to Accra after delivering an address at the annual Conference of the Ghana Bar Association at Ho. Incidentally, that accident too involved a tipper truck which ran into the Chief Justice's vehicle. The latest accident involving the Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius, Xavier-LUC Duval, is coming in the wake of intel picked up by this paper indicating that the trip to Tamale was originally not part of the itinerary planned for the visiting Number Two of Mauritius. Indeed, according to intel sources, the Deputy Prime Minister was taken to places including the Marina�s shopping mall as well as the river side at Akosombo by a state official though it was not part of his itinerary. Indeed, the state official bulldozed his way into the programme that had been lined up for the visiting Deputy Premier, changed the itinerary to suit his own interest and took over the daily affairs of the Deputy premier while he was in Ghana. �Thank God nothing happened to the Deputy Prime Minister. If it had, some high ranking state officials will be singing another tune by now because they were not even the ones to engage the guest in the first place,� the intelligence source told this paper.