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which a restricted police wireless message indicating that hip-life
musician, Castro, has been found alive and on admission at a hospital in
Togo, was leaked to the public.
Castro was reported to have drowned in the Volta River on July 6.
The Acting Director of the Police Public Affairs, DSP Cephas Arthur,
in an interview with NEWS-ONE on Wednesday evening said the wireless
message was not meant for public consumption and that whoever leaked it
acted unprofessionally.
He would however not state categorically whether Castro had been
found at the said hospital or not: “It is not as if Castro has been
found or not been found. It is a lead we had and we are working on it.
What we are doing now is to work on the lead and also investigate how
the restricted police wireless message leaked.
“We issued an internal communication and this was not for public
communication. We are only clarifying because it has come out to the
public. The restricted internal communication was sent to the Regional
Commander in the Volta Region to follow up on the hint we have heard
because they are nearer to Togo.
Unfortunately someone leaked it to the
public and caused some rumour mongering,” Cephas Arthur added.
In a separate interview with Sammi Anim Addo, Asamoah Gyan’s manager,
he said, “We were praying it would be true so we were ready to move to
Togo immediately when we were told to hold on and that some further
checks had to be done. But we first believed it and were excited,” Mr.
Addo explained.
The police wireless message was categorical that the name of the
person on admission at the said Togo hospital was “Theophilus Tagoe aka
Castro”.
It however did not make mention of Janet Bandu’s whereabouts.
Though it did not state how Castro got to the hospital, it sparked
speculations that he was found by a Good Samaritan at Lome, while lying
hapless and half dead on the Lome beach after he was supposedly washed
ashore.
The report also generated mixed feelings because a section of the
Ghanaian public has expressed doubts about the authenticity of entire
episode, describing it as publicity stunt.
Source: News One
