Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan denies allegations of murdering rapper-friend

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan denies reports of him using his friend Castro as a human sacrifice.

Asamoah Gyan has issued a statement to deny reports of him murdering his rapper-friend Theophilus Tagoe, aka Castro and his girlfriend, Janet Badu as part of a ritual human sacrifice.

Castro, and his girlfriend were reported to have disappeared earlier this July while jet-skiing during a holiday with the Gyan brothers at the Aqua Safari Resort in Ghana. Both of them were presumed death, however, the bodies are yet to be recovered. Following the incident, media agencies in Ghana started speculating that perhaps Castro and his girlfriend’s bodies were used by Gyan as a part of a human sacrifice.

It has been long in coming but better late than never. I hope this helps: http://t.co/klvE7vAB8E

— ASAMOAH GYAN (@ASAMOAH_GYAN3) September 24, 2014

Statement released on the player’s official website:

The statement was read out by Gyan’s lawyer Kissi Agyabeng at a press conference on Wednesday.

“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.

“In our painful silence, we have been totally dismayed by the fact that the platform was provided for the peddling of these wild and ludicrous allegations and rumours against us. Those to whom the platform was provided offered no evidence whatsoever to back their statements. And indeed, the allegation of spiritual sacrifice can by no stretch of the imagination be propped up.”

“We take the opportunity and state without the slightest doubt in our minds that we are not blamable for the disappearance of Castro and Janet Bandu. We had no hand in that occurrence. We have no moral or legal culpability whatsoever. None of us rode out into the open estuary with Castro and Janet Bandu. Castro rode out there on his own volition and none of us have the slightest idea as to what happened to them.

“We have only been guess working and conjecturing and making what appears to us to be intelligent deductions – in light of the facts available to us, especially the fact that when they rode out on the jet ski Janet Bandu was not wearing a life jacket … We are in unimaginable pain and shock and we will give anything to Castro and Janet back.”

The full statement could be read here.

Gyan is known to be very close to Castro, and has even featured in many of his songs.