Kwame Sefa Kayi, host of Kokrokoo On Peace FM, has talked about how he was once the target of a death hoax.
He was declared dead on Facebook while he was sleeping at home, according to the morning show host.
“A couple of years ago, about two or three years ago I was sleeping at about 2am when someone called wifey, when she picked up, the person asked of my whereabouts and she said I was beside her. The person then said alright, I will call you back and hanged up.
“Meanwhile, my next-door neighbor had been told he didn’t know whether to come home or not. So as at the dawn he will intermittently come out and check whether there is any action going on in our compound and then go back after seeing nothing. He kept at it and couldn’t sleep till daybreak,” he shared with panelists on his show on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
His admission came up during a discussion on the program about ex-president John Agyekum‘s false media reports.
Sefa Kayi revealed that word of his purported demise had reached his coworkers and employers as well as spread widely.
“I woke up in the morning to plenty messages, very unusual. God bless you amongst other from people I hadn’t even heard from in the past three years. I didn’t even bother about it and drove to work. At about 10 minutes to six, a man called me: I was almost at work and he started speaking my father’s language (Ewe). He asked me how I was doing and I told him I am fine. he said he was just checking up on me because he has not heard from me in a while, he wishes me well and that whatever I hear, I should just pray about it and ignore,” he said.
After his boss gave him the news, Sefa Kayi said he finally realized the circumstances.
“I was my boss, Fadda Dickson who finally came to say “they say you die! So I asked who say I die and I was sent to Facebook post, I said these people should wait for me attain at least 50 years, by then I was 50-years-old,” he said.
In a statement, the former president Kufuor’s office denied rumors that he had said something.
The octogenarian was reportedly in good health and going about his regular business, according to a statement from the office signed by Kwabena Osei-Adubofour, a senior aide and spokesperson for the former president.
