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The Englishman is unhappy with the club’s lack of support for victims of a traffic accident in 2017
Ghana’s Premier League team Asante Kotoko risks facing legal action for failing to compensate former coach Steven Polack for his involvement in a car accident during his time with the club in 2017.
While in command of affairs, the Englishman and the rest of the Porcupine Warriors team suffered an accident on their way back to Kumasi from Accra after a league encounter with the Inter Allies.
The incident claimed the life of team official Thomas Obeng Asare, while several others, including the head coach, suffered varying degrees of injuries.
“This will be the first time that I have taken legal action against my employer and sometimes in life you have to do it and I felt like something had to be done,” said Polack, who coached Berekum Chelsea before moving on to Kotoko, to Asempa FM.
“[The accident affected me], physically, my right knee can’t bend any more as if my left knee also had a problem with my neck and back.
“I feel more pain in winter than in summer since the accident, I have not run and I am an athlete, it is difficult for me to run because of my knee.
“Mentally, sometimes I wake up and my bed gets wet with sweat because I’ve been dreaming about the accident and what happened and I don’t know why they haven’t compensated me.”
This is not Polack’s first complaint about the club’s reluctance.
“You are an employee and you work for an employer, you wait for them [employer] to take care of you in whatever happens to you during your contract or the time you have been working there, so we are waiting for you [Kotoko] To do that [compensate us]”, Said last year the coach, who was fired by the club a year after the unfortunate incident for non-compliance.
“Let’s be honest, they [Kotoko management] they are adults, they must know these things. If the tables turn and it happens to you, how will you feel?
“Three years later and they still have not compensated us. What if they were the ones who suffered the accident? Don’t you think they would have already received their compensation?
“That’s why you always have to put yourself in the place of others and feel it too. Kotoko needs to make it up to us [accident victims]. “
Other members of Kotoko’s then-team, including goalkeeper Isaac Amoako and forward Sadick Adams, have also expressed their disgust at the lack of compensation.
