The younger brother of Ghanaian football icon Abedi Ayew Pele, Solar Ayew, has told an incredible tale of how his brother's notoriety enabled them to be freed from Togolese police prison. Solar described how they were arrested for refusing to pay a charge to use a different route on a trip in an interview with Dan Kwaku Yeboah TV. We had to spend 60,000 CFA to take a different route because the bridge over the water was destroyed when we arrived.
However, we had a car that could drive through the water, so I urged Abedi not to pay. We were arrested after going through the water, he claimed. When the officer in charge, who was a devotee of Abedi Pele, recognized him, things changed. "The police commander was unaware that this was the person they had arrested, even though his office was stocked with periodicals containing images of Abedi.
They immediately released him when he recognized it as Abedi Ayew, Solar said. He bemoaned Ghana's inability to appropriately honor its football legends. "What disturbs me is how much Abedini has done for this country. We will fail to recognize all of our other legends if we are not careful, which is really detrimental to the nation," Solar continued.