I often tell myself that Ghana is one of the best countries to live in, because everyday you hear issues that boggle the mind, and makes you wonder how ‘correct’ people are in this country.
Take the recent case of the disappearance of Castro and Janet Bandu, listen to the several theories and speculations from the general public and the ‘spiritualists’, and you realise the veracity of the claim I just made.
Now imagine a family gathering to mourn a supposed dead relative, then that relative turns up to the gathering. As any normal human would do, most of the people at the gathering took to their heels despite the fact that Mr Asante, the individual in question, was very much in human form.
So how did the mix-up occur and a family was mourning a living relative? Reports say there was an accident at Bubuashie, upon which scene the police found a mobile phone with the victim. They thus culled through the contacts on the phone and reached one of them, who was asked to come to the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the police service.
The family member was then informed that the owner of the phone had been involved in an accident and the body deposited at the Police Hospital morgue. The family was asked to come and identify the body the next day, but word spread fast and family members gathered to mourn Mr Asante.
Apparently, Mr Asante’s phone had been snatched, and it was the thief who was involved in the accident. Mr Asante confirmed this after his re-emergence, when he went with the police to the morgue and identified the dead body.
This chain of events reminds me a lot of Shakespeare’s work ‘A comedy of errors’, where a chain of seemingly unrelated events lead to horribly comical situations down the line. The chain of events needed for an incident like this are incredibly unlikely, yet here we are and the results is one of the more jaw dropping stories we’ve heard for a while.
It is understandable why the police would draw the conclusion that the owner of the phone was involved in the accident, more so that the family would immediately panic on hearing about it and draw the conclusion that the man in question is dead. Still, Mr Asante had not been positively identified when people started gathering to mourn him, and that speaks to one of our weaknesses as a people; a fondness for rumour and innuendo.
I think we can all be glad that Mr Asante is still alive, but one thing I can say though is that I would have given everything to have been there when the ‘dead’ man reappeared.
What are your thoughts on this ‘incredible’ story?
Lol, serious matter but sounds funny; the family picked someone’s corpse
Glad it’s not frim (film) anka insults paa aaawww lmaaaooo
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There was a movie like that in the 1990’s. Forgot those characters. The dead man was a thief who had stolen someone’s suitcase from naija containing his passport, kids cloths and everything. His fam members went ahead to bury the thief and the man in questioned showed up one night.
Lmaaaooo why did I just remember “oona noko…ooshe gbeyei” Hahaha. Do u remember that one?
hahahaha yes agege spirit the ghost was too funny. oona nook oosh3 gbeyei la. How can I forget this funny movie.
Omgeee yaaaaasss agege spirit. .i was trying soo hard to remember the tittle. That was back then when Ghana movies were fun to watch even with low budget. Chaiii when we use to ran and pack ourselves in our neighbors house to watch a movie…lmaaaooo after that, everybody is struggling to find their chaley w)te aka tokota aka mpaaboa hahaha hahaha oooh back when
Hahaha yessssss i miss the old movies. When we had Regina ponortey, grace nortey and her daughter Sheilla. Now the movies they produce is too horrible. I guess am more into the naija ones.
Ooh chaley …when we use to know every actor by their names lol and some of them were known by their character names lol. Now everybody is an actor, we can’t even keep up. Oooh I remember grace Nortey and mcjordan amartey’s infamous fight in who killed Nancy “obaa gengen” Hahaha hahaha. ..regina quarcoopome and Micheal moncar in my sweety. Chris should do a “where are they now” post on our old and genuine original actors
Yes obaa gengen lol 3sh3 wobo 3sh3 wosisi 3sh3 wu tua tua awww i miss Mcjordan. Heard he is very ill… Michael moncar is late died in 2012. They are what we call genuine actors Juliet asante was good too. She was in who killed Nancy as Nancy. Nah the quarcoopome is rather monica regina is some hot cake back then lol she was the one in who killed nancy who spent all the dollars.
Yes yes yes how can I forget Monica’s name. I actually lived opposite their family house in Korle gonna once (her father’s house)..somewhere around 99 or 2000 her father passed and I remember all the actors were there. And I mean the old ones who made the industry a better one. How I miss them, for now we have to do with the Nigerians sha. Not the best but how we for do am?
Eish then you weren’t too far from me kraa oo lol i was born into the korlebu quarters lol lived there for 11 years then to haatso. I really do miss Ghana. Korle gonna was only 10minutes away.
Korle bu quarters??? Ok now this is getting weird…Omgeee gurl we gotta meet…cos moi attended moh(ministry of health basic school) my greatest alma matter. The best syto in Ghana lol
hehehehehe yes we gotta yo.. this is too funny i know that school.. lol it wasn’t that syto though,
Omg there are a couple of old movies I just came across on YouTube. .just watched heritage Africa for the first time and a couple too. Check them out
This is stupid so they hve not even seen the body which is there waiting for them to see and they are already mourning? I am sure they ran leaving their shoes behind
Why start mourning when you haven’t confrimed the person is really dead. Abusua d) efunu ampa
Sounds like a nkansah liwin concert movie lol
Haha don’t I just love Ghana