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Ghanaian man's body lies for 18 months in NI mortuary

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  • .com 11 years ago

    may his soul rest in peace why cant the Ghanaian community organise a funeral and send him and what about the Ghana embassy embassy

  • damion 11 years ago

    Mr Owusu Ansah said he and Mr Adzawoloo's sister had been denied permission to travel to Northern Ireland "to see the mortal remains and to repatriate same to Ghana for burial and funeral rites".

    Ok. They have the money fo ...
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  • Sulamana 11 years ago

    So we are now exporting our stupid cultural practices abroad. I never had any outdooring for my kids but they are now big and strong, straight A students and doing great. We worry ourselves for nothing and chain each other wi ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    read the story well and you will understand that the family want cash.

  • Sulamana 11 years ago

    people are importing machinery and technology to produce goods - South Korean ambassador says that is how they moved ahead of Ghana. We focus on importing dead bodies!!!

  • The Truth 11 years ago

    Oh my brother we've fridges to keep dead bodies from months to years but don'nt have those fridges to keep our fruits(mango,orange,papaya etc)For the living ones,I'ts very sad.Our concern is about funeral not factory(same 7 l ...
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  • joy 11 years ago

    I support your idea.

  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    Hear hear!

  • TOGBE GANYO 11 years ago

    IF ALL THESE LAWS AND RULES ABIDE GHANAIAN SO CALLED CHIEFS, WHY DO THEY TRAVEL ABROAD TO BE CLINNING TOILET ROOMS. THEY SHOULD STAY AT HOME TO EAT THEIR GOAT AND SHEEP. STUPID PEOPLE.

  • JAY 11 years ago

    I SEE YOU ARE ONE THEM "SIMPLE ONES" HUH.... READ THE ARTICLE AGAIN WITH ONE OF UR STRAIGHT "A" KIDS.

  • Ghanaba No.1 11 years ago

    If the sister can travel just to see the dead body in Belfast,the family have enough money for her travel expenses right? Why don't they organise with such amount to bring back the dead body without she wasting the money? Com ...
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  • KOFI ABRANTEE 11 years ago

    CORRECT TALK

  • UNITED GHANA 11 years ago

    I agree totally with you. They can even afford to hire a lawyer

  • Nana Kweku Arhin 11 years ago

    If the family of the deceased in Ghana does not have money to bring the body to Ghana, I recommend that the body should be given to a medical school so that the body does not become wasted. We should stop this nonsense that ...
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  • Akua. from USA 11 years ago

    well u might see it as nonsense ghanaba no 1, but i see it as a right decision because if the sister gets to the funeral home where the body is right now that will help her get some true fact or find out the cause of the dead ...
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  • UNITED GHANA 11 years ago

    If he's a proper chief why can't they find the money for his repatriation from voluntary contributions of his 'subjects'. The fact that compensation is being demamded suggests this disgraceful affair is an opportunistic attem ...
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  • Joce 11 years ago

    I dont unde rstand you you that you and the sister are trying to go and bring the body if you have that and is two of you why dont you send that money to bring the him home

  • Efuah 11 years ago

    Maybe the dead chief need to be escorted by kinsmen/women

  • damion 11 years ago

    According to the family's legal representative, the dead man was a chief in his local Ghanaian community. Tradition and custom dictate that he must be buried in a particular place in his native home, they said

    Family- then ...
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  • Against Mantse 11 years ago

    Interesting to note that a WHOLE TOWN in Ghana cannot organize 'Appeal for Funds" to bring back home the mortal remains of their CHIEF. By the way who was ruling in his absence? A chief working as a 'washman' on a trawler for ...
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  • augustine manu 11 years ago

    though painful,the community should forget the body and use the little money they have to develop the town perhaps it could build a school or a portable water for the town. let the dead bury the dead

  • Kakkramadu Sanyo 11 years ago

    Talk not rubbish .Die yourself and let your body get abandoned and see what a disgrace it is to your family .Talk sense my brother .
    The best that can be done is that he should be repatriated with the help of the Fishing Com ...
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  • Efuah 11 years ago

    Wow! my sensible brother,think again and access who is talking garbage. The mere fact that he was working for the company doesn't mean they have to bear the cost. He did not work for free, he was paid for his services and he ...
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  • ManBelhomme 11 years ago

    Hmm, tradition forbids us to insult the dead, but conditions should not be created to oblige people to do just that.
    We all know the worth of our traditional chiefs, couldn't it be face saving move by the chief makers of the ...
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  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    Ghanaians always let these things hinder us. They did the same to us, demanding that we bring our dead mother to Ghana.....at who's expense? We just buried her in England, it was her wish that she not be a financial burden ...
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  • adjoah-uk 11 years ago

    I agree with you more than 100%

  • Sampana 11 years ago

    Compensation for natural cause of death?
    Indeed these people want to be rich over a dead man.

    The hospital must give them ultimatum to collect the body oe be charged for storage each single day and taken to court after a ...
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  • Hajia Hajara m Ali 11 years ago

    Very sad his community should do well to organize some funds & get the body down for proper burial we should remember he is a chief.

  • Naina 11 years ago

    A bit perplexed as we turn to milk people for their money. What will a dead person bring to the table if repatriated? I guess the family wants compensation for natural causes and they have a lawyer leading this insane case?

  • damion 11 years ago

    Mr Owusu Ansah cannot be a real lawyer. He is probably looking for an all expenses paid trip to NI. Mr Owusu Ansah said that the dead man's family did not have the means to pay for the body to be sent back to Africa. He said ...
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  • Pity. 11 years ago

    A chief left Ghana to Belfast to work in a fishing trawler? Why the family can't raise money to retrieve the corpes if its a taboo to bury the body in foreign land. It will be better to bury the dead in Belfast than be in th ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    very sad issue but somebody has to explain to the family that things work differently in the UK. you take your life, death cover or whatever and that the company is not responsible for you or would pay any compensation when y ...
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  • damion 11 years ago

    i feel so sad for the company. I hope the company doesnt feel pressured to pay. This is crap. We always want money from people. THEY MUST NOT PAY A THING

  • Zanta Zantoda 11 years ago

    How does a chief who lives far away in another country serve his community? This is just another example of Ghanaians (or Africans?)thinking that people who live in the western world have money to give on demand. As for the ...
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  • damion 11 years ago

    Zanta, You are too kind but no company would give this lying moron an internship. How???. He is a fly by night lawyer. No one has heard of him

  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    If the man died of NATURAL CAUSES,what prevents the family to PAY THE EXPENSES and have their deseased Chief????
    I really DON'T SEE the problem here! I'm I missing something in the reporting ???

  • James B. Otafregya 11 years ago

    ???

  • damion 11 years ago

    James, you are right. As you see I have made many posts on the issue. You are right. Do they have the money?. That is the question. I think the problem I have here is that their lawyer is misleading them. Maybe the subjects- ...
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  • Jato Rawlings 11 years ago

    LEAVE HIM THERE HE IS AN EWE

  • damion 11 years ago

    Jato, I have made 3 posts here today. I do think your tribal comment is out of context. Lets stick to the issue. The family are being misled by their lawyer or have no idea about how these things work.Come on. They need to fi ...
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  • Glo 11 years ago

    Jato Rawlings or whatever your name is, you have shown that you are ignorant and unintelligent. I was under the impression that people like you may have become extinct due to evolution.

    I am Ewe and Ga and very proud of m ...
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  • EG-HOLLAND 11 years ago

    A day grows old as we do. Do not wish death upon it. Let it live, let it love, and only then should you let it rest in peace.What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai ...
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  • lynn 11 years ago

    May God forgive you jato rawlings. ghanaians thers should help.

  • aaaa9 11 years ago

    Minimum wages.

  • yao 11 years ago

    Where is the life insurance policy. life insurance benefit a family in the event of untimely death like this one All he needed was a beneficiary spouse, extended family or guardian or trustee to be appointed to administer the ...
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  • VKM 11 years ago

    A nation in need of Culturally Sensitive Policies for Accountability and Economic Development



    This news item demonstrates the lack of accountability in the Ghanaian culture.
    The family wants the return of the body ...
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  • BOLD 11 years ago

    This guy went there on his own and the family must be responsible for the corpse. No one discouraged him from travel knowing his responsibilities as a so called "chief". Had he made it big, the family would have benefited but ...
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  • Onslopogas 11 years ago

    Why all these tobe' tobe' .. Can't the Ghanaian embassy or community in Northern Ireland get this sorted by either footing the bill or investigating the truth in the so-called chieftaincy clauses attached? Afterall the perso ...
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  • ayigbe 11 years ago

    i know dis guy personally.i was suppose to travel with him.frankly speaking he was sick before he traveled.may his soul rest in peace..

  • Eddie Bedford 11 years ago

    Ayigbe, I will strongly suggest that you keep this information about the fact that this seaman was sick before he traveled 'under quiet' as the family try to resolve the issue with the employer/owner . Also that point cannot ...
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  • TAMBRO/DENMARK 11 years ago

    I THINK ONCE HE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSE AND THE DIRECTER OF THE SOUTHERN HEALTH TRUST IS READY TO ARRANGE AND BEAR THE COST OF TRANSPORTING THE BODY HOME THE FAMILY SHOULD ACCEPT THIS OFFER IN GOOD FAITH IN ORDER TO LAY HIM TO ...
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  • Eddie Bedford 11 years ago

    As a mariner for over 30 years I wish to express my condolences to the entire family for the lost of the young mariner son. My advice to lawyer Owusu Ansah who is representing the family is to first google "Maritime Lawyer in ...
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  • Kwame LOGOLIGI 11 years ago

    I just finished reading a story on Ghanaweb,where a thirteen years old hangs himself and some idiot's comment is, nobody should cry for the poor boy.
    Ghanaians are known to cry forty days and forty nights pretending they are ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 11 years ago

    What about any employment benefit that the deceased might have been entitled to.

    Such benefits as life insurance, union benefits if any could be pooled together to get the body home.

  • Adelaide 11 years ago

    GOOD PERSON. GOD BLESS YOU.

  • Frank, Maryland 11 years ago

    What is the essence of the Ghana embassy in the U.K. if they can't help repatriate the dead body to his native Ghana?

  • Akwele 11 years ago

    May his soul rest in peace.

  • KOFI ABRANTEE 11 years ago

    RIP, BUT THE GHANA GOVERNMENT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SENDING DEAD GHANAIANS BACK TO GHANA, IS THE DUTY OF THE RELATIVES OR THE SO-CALLED KINGDOM.

  • Kwame Owusuansa 11 years ago

    Whoever who took the deceased Mr. Fortune Adzewoloo to the Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, has the legal custody of the corpse. He or she should try to bury the body in Newry, to avoid storage charges. If Fortune did not leav ...
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  • Sansan 11 years ago

    Dam u Kofi Ansah, this is the whitemans den, each one for himself God for us all. Look for other means to repatrate the body. Sad though. RIP

  • Hebert, Sweden 11 years ago

    You see how primitive you Ghanaians are. Simple thing you talk, talk, and talk, and doing nothing. Why should the Embassy pay for the Dead body to be brought home, without the Garantee from the Family to refund the Body? Or i ...
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  • Eddie. London 11 years ago

    I must first express my deepest condolences to his family. What bothers me is if the family is being represented by a lawyer as we are told I am sure he knows that the local council offres support for hard up berived families ...
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  • Eddie. London 11 years ago

    I must first express my deepest condolences to his family. What bothers me is if the family is being represented by a lawyer as we are told I am sure he knows that the local council offres support for hard up berived families ...
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  • NANA KWADWO ADUSEI 11 years ago

    I give my condolences to the family and relations of this Chief .I am going to introduce this organization number to the family. They may be able to help bring the body home at a very low cost . It is a charitable organizatio ...
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  • George 11 years ago

    The family wants to chop some on behalf of the dead man. These days every where is hard. No easy chop chop

  • DUVA 11 years ago

    Someone is just trying to take advantage of the situation, travel abroad and return no more. This is nonesense.

  • fiifi 11 years ago

    may his soul rest in perfect peace.

  • asare benard 11 years ago

    the manager of the company in which he was working should use his benefits to send the body to ghana.period

  • papillon 11 years ago

    Let the family foot the bill then.

  • Alex London 11 years ago

    Sardius Fishing Company should show some compassion

  • Akwadaa Swiss. 11 years ago

    THE QUESTION GOES BACK TO HOW HE ENTERED INTO BRITAIN? HIS NEXT OF KIN & and..so..on? ON what basis WAS HIS WORKING PERMIT ISSUED? AFTER ALL DIS, IF the family cant send the dead body HOME- WITHIN A TIME FRAME-HE SHLD BE CREM ...
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  • Devil's Advocate 11 years ago

    Why should the tax payers pay for the body to be repatriated to Ghana?

    I am sure he is owed some salary. This should be used to send the money back to Ghana. Don't expect the tax payers of UK to pay for it. The body is onl ...
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  • Sulamana 11 years ago

    We should stop all this nonsense and get real. If a white man can bury a body within a week of death with the assistance of a funeral home, why do we make such a big deal about death? No wonder we are remaining backward. Ever ...
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  • American 11 years ago

    On the one hand, an unclaimed body in a mortuary should eventually be disposed of if no one claims it. On the other: this man was really paid only 400 pounds a month in expensive UK?

  • Slyjemmy 11 years ago

    Africa is not respected all over the world,except is riches,our identity means slavery to them with light skin tone,our leaders are still PUPPETs in disguise when the western countries are dealing with Africa is always boy a ...
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  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    You are obviously an arse! What bullshit you spew...Go get an education Mr. Bull talker

  • Mawusi 11 years ago

    What was a chief doing on a deck earning £400 a month. Cleaners earn more than that and if you work for a company and you fall ill and die, how can it be the company's reponsibilty for your body.
    it will be different if he ...
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  • Mensah Abroampa 11 years ago

    This shows exactly how unrealistic most ghanaians think back at home, anything concerned with abroad is associated with afflunenze, the guy died abroad so the foreign government or the company he jobbed for should pay for the ...
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  • afuaghanakumase 11 years ago

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  • EWE MAN 11 years ago

    TAKE IT TO THE ASHANTIS

  • BOLD 11 years ago

    It is a well known fact that Ewes do not like responsibilities and will do anything to avoid a responsibility. This is why the family wants the company, the government or the public to bear the responsibility. Now you have ju ...
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  • Glo 11 years ago

    Please stop generalizing about Ashantis and Ewes,"Ewe Man" and Bold. Both of you appear to be ignorant. We need to stop judging people based on which ethnic group they belong to and spend more time focussing on individual beh ...
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  • ROMANO 11 years ago

    WHO GIVES A FUCK AN ABOUT AYIGBE MAN THE WORLD HAS REALLY CHANGED YEARS AGO THE AYIGBE PEOPLE NEVER TRAVELLED.JUST SEND MONEY TO BRING THE BODY HOME OR BURY HIM OUTSIDE

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    This dead ewe chief was being paid 400 pounds a month.What an exploitative work that he was doing!!And the cause of the death shows clearly that he was working or living in insanitary conditions.How could he have lived on 100 ...
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  • Hajia Hajara m Ali 11 years ago

    What a sad story . His community should do their best to send down his remains for for proper burial. We should remember he is a chief of that community

  • Paul 11 years ago

    That was not a natural death. He died from blood poisoning due to bacteria infection in the blood stream or possibly poison from someone or the contaminated environment.
    That is absolutely not a natural death.

  • Akua. from USA 11 years ago

    I think ghanaian officials in that country have to investigation this chief death. if it was related to poison as someone commented ealier, then his family is entitle for compensation. if not then, the family has to bear ever ...
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  • adjoah-uk 11 years ago

    Is it me or the family are gold diggers and not well informed. It is very sad that the young man died but i can not see how there should be any compensation paid to the family to fly their royal back home. Afterall the compan ...
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  • Joyce. from USA 11 years ago

    Do u think a white man will offer free money for burial or cremation for nothing if this man death is not job related? wake up ghanaians. i think there might some thing hiding.listen to paul's comments and seek for vengence a ...
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