Akyem Oda, Last Sunday, tragedy struck Akyem Oda when two young siblings drowned in a vacant pool.
According to a Graphic Online story, Kofi Asare, 6, and Esther Dede, 13, both perished while attempting to save their younger sibling.
The deceased youngster was one of three children who went outside to play in the neighbourhood near a shuttered pool that belonged to a defunct sawmill, according to Grace Asare, the children’s lone parent and a trader, who spoke to the Daily Graphic at Oda yesterday.
A four-year-old child who was the deceased’s playing partner came back to their home to inform them that the ball they were using had fallen into the pool, which was only a few meters away, she added.
She claimed that after his sister Esther fell into the river while attempting to retrieve the ball, Kofi tried to save her, but they both perished.
Ms. Asare, who was in tears, said that Kofi had his fourth birthday earlier that day. The residents of the area, however, refuted Madam Asare’s story and insisted that her negligence was to blame for the deaths of her two children.
They asserted that Ms Asare was busy making her meal when neighbours complained about her two kids battling for their lives in the pool.
They claim that Ms Asare told the neighbours to help her look for her two children when she realized late that evening that they hadn’t come home.
Later, they claimed, they discovered the two kids floating and dead in the pool, and they reported it to the Oda Police. The two bodies were eventually recovered by members of the Oda Police and Ghana National Fire Service and brought to the Oda Government Hospital for an autopsy and preservation.
Chief Superintendent Daniel Amoako, the commander of the Oda Municipal Police, acknowledged the event and said the police were looking into it when the Daily Graphic called him
