Agya Prince, a Ghanaian national residing in South Africa popularly known as Kontonkyi, has reported the tragic discovery of a fellow countryman found dead and abandoned on a street.
The deceased, a dual professional who worked as both an information and communications technology (ICT) specialist and a barber, reportedly went missing on the very evening that a wave of xenophobic unrest began.
While Kontonkyi stopped short of definitively attributing the fatality to the targeted violence, he highlighted the suspicious timing of the disappearance. Local search efforts persisted for several days before the victim’s remains were eventually located in a mortuary.
Preliminary information from the South African Police Service suggested the individual died from internal bleeding following a blunt force trauma to the head.
The Ghanaian Embassy was subsequently engaged to utilise diplomatic channels for a formal inquiry.
These further investigations revealed the victim had been struck in the neck, resulting in his death.
Kontonkyi noted in an interview on Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM that had the body not been identified in time, the deceased might have been interred in a mass burial.
Reflecting on the circumstances, Kontonkyi shared the following:
“I cannot confirm or deny. But the young man went missing in the evening when the attacks started. He was hit in the neck and suffered internal bleeding which caused his death. He was attacked by the South Africans. We stayed with him. He was a young man who was an IT professional and a barber. He was a Voltarian. On the evening of March 31, 2026, the South Africans held a demonstration demanding that the foreigners leave. That was the day he went missing.
He was later found dead by the police. He had been dead and in the mortuary for a week while we were also searching for him. I cannot be straightforward as to whether his death was linked to the xenophobic attacks, but he went missing in the evening when the attacks started. He went missing for a week; it took more than two weeks before we got to know that someone had been found dead, and when we went to the mortuary, it was him.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana