Family member of deceased Paralympic coach, George Gyamfi Gyasie who unfortunately passed on in Oslo, Norway, has denied media reports suggesting that “Four relatives who were sent to Norway to bring the corpse of Coach Gyasie have also disappeared”.
This follows an interview President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ghana (NPC-Ghana), Samson Deen, granted with Asaase Radio on Monday, July 22, where he indicated, that relatives of Coach Gyasie fled to Norway for his corpse and never returned.
“They subsequently wrote to the Norwegian embassy again and requested to send the families of the one who died. The people went, they couldn’t bring the corpse. The four also absconded, these guys are known. They’ve been identified,” he said.
Speaking to the media, Felix Gyasie[relative of the late Coach George Gyasie] noted his displeasure with the misrepresentations of the issue and is, however, considering legal action. He, therefore, stated that it was solely the wife of the deceased coach, George Gyasie, and two other family members who wanted to travel to Norway to bring back the corpse, but they were unfortunately denied visas.
“For me, I think it’s very unfortunate the way rumours are going about. The way there has been a lot of misrepresentations. As a family, we want to deal with this issue legally. We would not allow people to just drag his lane just because he can’t speak for himself; As a family we had a meeting about it,” he said.
“It is George’s wife who said she’ll go there[Oslo, Norway] and she applied for a visa with his brother and they were refused in Accra, apart from them, there was no delegation from our family,” he added.
Felix Gyasie also challenged the report from national security, denying that his brother George was part of the Paralympic team that allegedly absconded in Oslo.
The release that was sent and signed by the minister, Kan-Dapaah, if you check the last but one paragraph you discovered that it said “relatedly” in terms of that, the language used simply says that, it was not happening at the same time that these guys absconded.
Now what happened was that George was in Turkey. George spoke to me and said he wanted to go to Ghana so as siblings we spoke. Now when he got to Ghana unfortunately our uncle passed on so it was only fitting that George stayed for the funeral in Kumasi.
Now he decided that okay in fact he needed financial assistance from our sister and our sister had said that we should finish the funeral then you can assist him to travel. By George due to the paucity of time he had to look for assistance elsewhere and left.
So on arrival in Oslo we were told that he had complained of a leg problem and then he collapsed so he was rushed to the hospital. So after a few days we had heard that we had lost George,” he noted.
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Story by: Gabriel Tecco Mensah | univers.ug.edu.gh
