A driver of a passenger bus (locally known as trotro) in the Ashanti Region has recounted how he lost his sight completely weeks after engaging in a verbal argument with a passenger who issued a threat, telling him to wait and witness the outcome.

Isaac Moro, also known as Atimbila, discussed his unfortunate situation on the "Sompa Asem Mp3 Nipa" program of Kumasi-based Sompa FM, during a broadcast earlier this week.

Atimbila, originally from Bolgatanga but currently living in New Suame, Kumasi, expressed that he was pleading with the individual he had a short argument with to forgive him and grant him the opportunity to recover from his blindness.

Narrating the sequence of events to the show host, he said: “I worked with my conductor early July picking passengers at Shell Station but because we are not running a regular station route we were headed for the Otumfuo roundabout, apparently, this elderly man was the only passenger yet to alight as he was heading for Kejetia.”

Atimbila said he saw the altercation between the man and his conductor but “I kept mute as he spoke with the mate.”

He stressed that his intervention came as the mate kept begging the man at a point he agreed to alight. “I intervened … and then he said we will see, so I appealed to him over his choice of words, he left the mate and told me to wait that I will see, when he got down.

“I said, what will I see, is he going to kill me or that I should wait and see what? He said he had given me until July ending, I will see what will happen and that as he leaves to Accra, I will not see him again.

“I called his bluff because we are always fighting passengers,” he added.

In recounting how the problem with his eye started, he said he had almost forgotten the episode and thought he was suffering an eye condition known as ‘apollo.”

“So, on 27th of July, I had one eye becoming watery as if I had apollo. The following morning it had worsened but I still went to work with my conductor because I could see clearly with the other eye, by 6pm I found that the other eye was problematic.

“I spoke to the station chairman and he also said it was a case of apollo. The following morning, I woke up and tried opening my eyes, I couldn’t see at all but I knew it was morning,” he submitted.

He said his old woman had been struggling with him since he went blind, which situation he believes is entirely because of the episode.

He extended an appeal to the public to try to find the aggrieved man to show mercy and allow me to be healed.