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Relatives sent to retrieve corpse of absconded Ghanaian coach aslo flee
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.
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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, collapsed on April 28 and di£d on May 17 at the Oslo University Hospital, while nine people are presently on the run.
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