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Asamoah Gyan donates GH¢10k to taxi driver who returned money left in his car to owner
Dr Bawumia gifts viral taxi driver GH¢20,000
Manasseh Azure donates to viral taxi driver
Ghanaian football icon Asamoah has donated GH¢10,000 cedis to Kwesi Ackon, the taxi driver who returned an amount of money left in his car to the owner.
A representative of Asamoah Gyan donated on his behalf at the studios of Okay FM on Thursday, May 12, 2022.
The ex-Black Stars player’s donation comes after Kwesi Ackon returned an amount of GH¢8,000 to the owner went in a viral video on social media.
Gyan requested to meet the taxi driver for his kind gesture under a post on Instagram where he wrote: “I wanna see him”.
The cab driver, Kwesi Akon, has received several donations since the video went viral.
Investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni donated GH¢2,500 on behalf of two other unnamed donors.
Manasseh additionally donated a sum of GH¢20,000 to Ackon which he indicated was from the office of the vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Musician KiDi also donated GH¢5,000 cedis to Kwesi Ackon.
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