Authorities have identified a man who tragically fell into the Lower Volta River at Sokpoe in the Volta Region, leading to his death. Mr. Edmund Fingaro Dickah, the Assembly Member for the Sokpoe Electoral Area in the South Tongu District, confirmed to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the deceased was Mr. Emmanuel Charwey, a resident of Manya Kpongunor in the Lower Manya Municipality of the Eastern Region.
According to Dickah, Charwey had left his bookshop in Manya Kpongunor under the pretext of traveling to Kpong, leaving his mobile phone behind. The man, believed to be in his early 60s, lost his life after falling from the Lower Volta bridge on the ECOWAS highway at Sokpoe on Monday, October 28, 2024, around 2:00 PM.
Following the incident, the body was retrieved and has been deposited at the Sogakope District Hospital Mortuary after residents reported the incident to the local police command.
Eyewitness accounts suggest that Charwey had disembarked from a commercial motorcycle at Sokpoe, walked back towards the bridge, and then jumped into the river. Fishermen nearby witnessed the incident and attempted to rescue him, but unfortunately, he was found dead.
