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The international footballer Asamoah Gyan held a press conference yesterday to deny rumours that he took part in a ritual sacrifice of the Ghanaian rapper Castro.
As The Guardian reports, Castro and his girlfriend Janet Badue disappeared in late July while jet-skiing in Ada, Ghana. The fact that their bodies never turned up led to wild speculation over the pair's fate.
Gyan, who was formerly a striker for Sunderland, held a press conference yesterday to put an end to rumours that he had ritually sacrificed his friend to enhance his career.
A statement from Gyan, read out by lawyer Kissi Agyabeng, criticised the media for "wild allegation and rumours... ranging from the absurd - of the imputation of criminality to [Gyan] in the sense that he either murdered Castro or had him kidnapped - and ending with the ludicros - that he sacrificed him spiritually to enhance his career."
He continued: "We have been silent while these wild allegations and rumours have been peddled in the media. We have been silent not because we are concealing anything or that we do not feel the need to fully state what, from our reckoning, had happened in Ada. We have been silent because we did not want to interfere with police investigations."
Read Gyan's full statement here.
