Anokye Supremo. INSET: The casket bearing his remains
The remains of the late Anokye Supremo have finally arrived in Ghana after widespread reports about lack of funds to pay his hospital bill.
Anokye died on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, after surviving a brain tumour surgery.
According to last week’s reports, management of the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Mukundapur in India, where his surgery was done, refused to release his body.
He owed the hospital to sum of $21,000, which necessitated a campaign to raise money to help the family bring the body home. Some persons even suggested his body should be cremated.
A video circulating on social media since Tuesday shows Anokye’s casket being lifted from an airplane.
His manager, Isaac Kobina Zakk, had reportedly said the body arrived on Monday.
Anokye Supremo, formerly known as DL Junior, was discovered in 2010 in Just Like You, a reality TV show which gave artistes the platform to mimic their favourite celebrities.
On that show, he mimicked Daddy Lumba. After the show, Anokye who has similar looks as Daddy Lumba has been plying his trade as a musician.
He had to change his name from DL Junior to Anokye Supremo after he was sued by highlife artiste Daddy Lumba, ordering him to stop using his name and stop singing his songs at programmes.
He is known for his songs like ‘Befa Me’, ‘Efri Nea Efire’ and ‘Hye Wo Ho Den’, ‘Krom Aye De’ and ‘Hash Wuish’.