The President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ghana (NPC-Ghana), Samson Deen has revealed that four relatives sent to retrieve the corpse of a member of the country’s absconded Paralympic team have also gone missing in Norway.
Deen spoke in a chat with Asaase Breakfast Show in Kumasi, Ghana, on Monday.
In April, a Paralympic team travelled to Norway, supposedly to represent Ghana in the Fjordkraft Bergen city marathon.
The team had obtained visas from the Norwegian embassy in Accra and was expected to participate in the tournament in Oslo on April 27.
A statement from the Ministry of National Security said 11 athletes were supposed to show up for the marathon but failed to even register for the competition.
A team member, identified as Nana Antwi, was arrested on April 26 for attempting to depart Norway for Sweden on a one-way train ticket. The team’s coach, George Gyamfi Gyasi, coll@psed on April 28 and di£d on May 17 at the Oslo University Hospital, while nine people are presently on the run.
Speaking on the situation, Deen said: “If you look at the first application, it was six or seven people they applied for initially. They were denied visas, they got the letters they wanted subsequently forged, but upon arrival, they absconded, and one di£d.
They subsequently wrote to the Norwegian embassy again and requested to send the families of the one who di£d. The people went, they couldn’t bring the corpse. The four also absconded. These guys are known. They’ve been identified.”
Deen had earlier alleged that his signature was forged to procure the visas. He also denied knowledge of the Paralympic team.
