Attn: News Desk.
Story: Nurudeen Salifu, Tamale.
THE two remaining bodies of the three workers of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) who got drowned in a river at Pagazaa in the Tamale metropolis have been recovered.
The bodies, which have been deposited at the morgue of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, were retrieved on Saturday through the hard work of 35 fishermen of Oda origin, widely referred to as the “Bator” people.
The assembly man for the Wamale electoral area, Ibrahim Abu, who was part of the team that sought the support of the fishermen, told the Daily Graphic that several groups of fishermen dived deep into the river and managed to rescue the first body at about 11am on Saturday.
He said the retrieval of the last body posed some challenges to the fishermen and, therefore, some traditional rituals had to be performed to appease the River god before the body was recovered after 3pm.
“The fishermen told us that anytime they were about to pick the body, it would slip and move to another location and so they requested that the sacrifices be made to help the process,” Mr Abu stated.
According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh arrangements were being made as at Sunday afternoon to convey the bodies to Accra.
Earlier on Friday, the body of the driver, which was strapped to his seat by the seatbelt, was found when the police and some inhabitants succeeded in removing the car.
The three GIFEC personnel were returning from Yendi, after they had gone to undertake an electronic assessment in line with the implementation the Ghana Prison’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) connectivity initiative, when their vehicle skidded off the road, hit a bridge and fell into the river.
The incident sent shock waves to residents of Tamale, due a radio message on a local fm station – Radio Justice – calling on people to rush to the scene and help rescue any survivors.
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