Ghana Police Service has launched investigations to establish the circumstances under which a missing fisheries observer died after disappearing on Tuna Vessel.
Corpse of the Ghanaian, Samuel Abayitey was discovered almost a month after his disappearance aboard the tuna vessel “Marine 707” dock at the Tema Harbour.
Report indicates that the decapitated body of Samuel Abayitey was washed ashore headless on Saturday, December 9 as circumstances under which he died remain scanty.
A brother of the deceased, Emmanuel Eugene Dorpumor narrated to Citi News that “We received information last month that they woke up around 1am and they were looking for him inside the ship but they couldn’t find him. His colleagues said they were chatting with him in the evening and that they were with him inside the ship but they couldn’t find him when they woke up around 1am. They said they searched everywhere on the ship but they couldn’t find him.
“Last Saturday, we went to the seashore in the evening and found him dead. We were able to identify the body and so the police from Tema came for the body and so the body is now with the police. His head was not there when we found him but since he is our brother, we knew he was the one.”
The family are therefore appealing to the Ghana Police Service to thoroughly investigate the death to unravel how their beloved one died.
“When the thing happened, they arrested some of the workers but they have been released and gone back to the sea and so as a family, we need lawyers to come in to help because it is a serious thing for us because we all know how to swim because we are from a coastal area and so his death is very serious to us.”
By Vincent Kubi