Two teenagers, aged 13, have drowned in Adjei Kojo Irrigation Dam in the Ashaiman Municipality in Accra.
The duo, Kwesi Amishadai and Daniel Martey, left home for the dam site to search for feed for their rabbit but met their untimely death after drowning in the muddy damn.
One of the bereaved, Baba Abugri, who is the father of Amishadai spoke to the media about the incident.
According to him, the news about the demise of the boys was disheartening because he expected that Amishadai, who was his first born and in whose care he left the younger children before leaving for work, would stay at home and keep watch over the kids.
“This morning as I prepared for work, I gave him [Amishadai] some money for their upkeep: he and his younger siblings, because he is the eldest. I cautioned him against abandoning the younger ones and he responded affirmatively. But while at work, I got the news. I came down and found out it was true. And you know how it feels to lose your loved one,” Mr. Abugri expressed his regrets.
On her part, Florence Martey, a sister to Daniel Martey, indicated that the boys were accustomed to visiting the site for feed despite cautions and measures put in place to prevent them.
“Sometimes you see them return with the feed though you are oblivious of the time they leave for the site. And we have warned them severally against the dam site. I sell feeds and because of them, I have packaged some at two cedis to meet their demands, yet still they go in search for it,” the late Daniel’s sister said.
She however noted that the dam appears shallow on the surface but very deep underneath, which accounted for her brother and his friend’s drowning.
Narrating how the incident occurred, an uncle to the late Amishadai said when his nephew fell into the water, Daniel decided to rescue him though he was not a swimmer, the reason he also drowned along with his nephew.
Meanwhile, the two have been deposited at Police Hospital Morgue pending autopsy.
