The Takoradi Circuit Court presided over by Henrietta Charway, has granted bail to Kingsley Ofosu, the sole survivor of the famous ‘Deadly Voyage’ stowaway story in 1992.
The suspect has, however, not been able to fulfill the bail conditions. The plea of the accused person was suspended after the prosecutor, Inspector Robert Yawson, told the court that investigations could not be completed.
The court subsequently granted the accused bail of GH¢ 2 million with two sureties, one to be justified with landed property.
They are also required to deposit their Ghana Card with the court. The accused person has also been asked to deposit his Ghanaian passport at the court registry.
Kinsley Ofosu, who made international headlines in 1992 with his miraculous survival from a stowaway trip, was arrested at Prampram on Saturday, October 14, for his involvement in an alleged €12,000 scam.
Complainant Charles Ohemeng phoned into a radio programme on a Takoradi-based station from Germany that he met the accused in Germany in 1997 after he made international headlines following his miraculous escape from the MC Ruby Cargo Ship.
He said the accused had become famous at the time due to the stowaway incident, adding that he decided to ship some vehicles and printing machines through him to Ghana.
According to the complainant, he bought Mercedes Benz, tanker, Nissan, double-axel vehicle, Opel, printing machines, and many others amounting to about 240 thousand deutschmarks, an equivalent of €120,000 at the time, and shipped them to Kingsley in Ghana, after which he never got to hear from him.
The case has been adjourned to Monday, November 20.
In 1992, Kingsley Ofosu made international headlines after he survived the slaughter of a group of African stowaways by the crew of a Bahamian-flagged Ukrainian-crewed cargo ship, MC Rugby. The ship was docked in Takoradi to load cocoa. The stowaways had planned to travel to Europe for a better life. After hiding on the ship for some days, they came across another stowaway who was on the ship from Cameroon. They were later found by crew members of the ship, who decided to slaughter them one after the other.
In all, Kingsley Ofosu’s half-brother, Albert Cudjoe, who was on the ship with seven others, was gruesomely murdered. Kingsley Ofosu was the only survivor. The sad story of Ofosu was dramatised in a 1996 film dubbed ‘Deadly Voyage’.
Source: 3NEWS
