Eric Fianko Kissiedu, a 47 year old man who left Ghana nineteen years ago after absconding with a family loan of GH 15, 000 has finally reunited with his family.
This comes after the Weekend Finder carried in its last edition, the story of Eric Kissiedu who was literally begging his family to forgive him for putting them through emotional trauma and breaching their trust by absconding with the loan money.
The story went viral, and within a matter of hours of its publication, the family of Eric called the offices of The Finder to seek clarification and further details on the whereabouts of their brother and relative.
Two members of his immediate family, followed up with a visit to the offices of The Finder on Monday, February 16, where they were briefed on the circumstances under which Eric was met and interviewed in Equatorial Guinea during the period of the AFCON.
The Weekend Finder also managed to give Eric’s contact to the family and they have since reunited.
Janet and Dora Kissiedu were the two of Eric’s four sisters who came to the offices of The Finder earlier this week.
Janet, the eldest of the family narrated how she fronted for the loan for his younger brother Eric to invest in his business only for him to bolt away with the money without a trace.
She said, they never thought of him as dead and had hopes he would one day return.
Janet said, she was put behind police cells when she could not raise the money to pay back the loan and had to depend on a Good Samaritan who wishes to remain anonymous, to get out of cells.
She said the ‘Good Samaritan ‘who is now a pastor, used his storey building which was valued at GH 17,000 at the time as colatrall which was to be sold to offset the debt.
She said, “Miraculously no one bought the house after two years and thankfully the owner of the house managed to raise money for me to pay the debt. The amazing thing is that he told me not to think of repaying him the money.”
Ms Janet said, this miracle was a sign of her faith in God and admonished workers at the Finder to be steadfast in their faith and belief in God.
For the uninitiated, Eric Kissiedu, who is an electrician by training, in an exclusive interview with The Finder in Equatorial Guinea, said he has not been able to return to Ghana after absconding with a GHc15, 000 loan relatives took for him to invest in his ‘second-hand’ refrigerator sales business.
He said, instead of investing the loan in the said business, he decided to leave the shores of Ghana in search of greener pastures.
Kissiedu left Ghana without saying goodbye to his immediate family which included his baby mama, whom he was cohabitating with, nor any member of his extended family.
He said that singular act has left him shattered and too ashamed to return home.
“I was living with my sisters in Nsawam, and life was a bit rough for me so my elder sister together with other relatives went to a customs officer in Nsawam called Kwamina to borrow money for me to invest in my refrigerator business but I bolted with the money and left the shop they also got for me to do my business.”
“They got a shop for me on the Spintex Road in Accra but I left the shop and absconded without informing any of them. It was unfair and I regret it so much.”
Eric Kissiedu says, he has since lost contact with every single member of his family and does not even know if any of them is still alive.
“I left because there were too many problems at home. I had a problem with my baby mama and generally life was rough so I decided that I was better off leaving Ghana to seek greener pastures. As we speak, I don’t know the whereabouts of my family. I feel ashamed and I want them to forgive me if they can. I want to come home but I can only do that if I know for certain that they have forgiven me or will forgive me.”
Kissiedu says he wants his family to know that he is neither dead nor in prison but alive and kicking in Equatorial Guinea.
“I want to have some form of communication contact with them so that in case they need some money I can send it to them for their upkeep. I’m not in prison or dead. I am alive and of a good behavior here in Equatorial Guinea.”
Kissiedu left Ghana with the objective of going to Europe but things didn’t work as he had planned it, so he found himself in Cameroon. He said friends in Cameroon persuaded him to migrate to Equatorial Guinea which he did.
According to Kissiedu, life has been good to him financially but marriage has been his biggest regret since he left Ghana.
“ I came to marry a lady form this Country, but she gave me hell so much that I divorced her. As alimony, I gave her my 3 bedroom house which I built here but that’s not a problem. I married again, the woman I stay with currently; I have a twin with her but she is also making life difficult for me as we speak.
“The woman I married after my first marriage failed is also troublesome; as we speak I have a huge problem with her. She makes me unhappy and I’m constantly living with regrets. She accuses me of sending all the money I make to Ghana, yet I send no money to anyone back home. I’m very unhappy now but I don’t know what to do.”
Kissiedu told The Finder that, despite all the financial gains he’s made here, he has regrets and wants to come and settle home.
Kissiedu does all manner of jobs to survive. He said he used to be lady hairstylist while in Cameroon- a trade he decribed as lucrative. But he stopped the hairstyling after a few years and went into the construction industry. He now works as a mason, plumber and an electrician.
Kissiedu says he learned his skills in electricals during his high school days at Suhum Secondary School and later Koforidua Secondary Technical School.
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