Kobby Kyei Recounts Heartbreaking Encounter with Elderly Woman Forced to Beg in Agomanya
Ghanaian online journalist and humanitarian, Kobby Kyei, has shared one of the most emotional experiences from his humanitarian work, recounting a disturbing encounter with an elderly woman forced to drag herself along the ground to beg for survival.
Speaking in an interview on What Dey Happen on Zed FM, Kyei described the moment he was alerted to the situation during a visit to Agomanya near Somanya in the Eastern Region.
According to him, the sight of the woman struggling to reach the roadside was both shocking and heartbreaking.
“This one was crazy. We went to Agomanya around Somanya and someone drew my attention to an 80-plus-year-old woman who was dragging her buttocks on the floor from her home to the roadside to beg for a living,” he recounted.
Kyei said the experience deeply affected him because of the woman’s age and the difficult circumstances in which she was living.
“When I got there and saw the old woman dragging herself to the roadside to beg, it was really an eyesore. It was something very painful to witness,” he said.
He explained that the woman’s family situation had left her vulnerable and without the support she needed in her old age.
According to him, the woman had three children, but none were in a position to care for her.
“This woman has three children. The first one is dead. The second one is over 60 years old and has also retired and is struggling somewhere,” he stated.
Kyei further revealed that the woman’s third child, who is over 50 years old, could not be located, leaving the elderly woman largely abandoned.
“The third son, who is also over 50 years old, is nowhere to be found,” he added.
He noted that with most of her siblings also advanced in age or no longer alive, the elderly woman had been left alone in the family house with little or no assistance.
Kyei said the incident remains one of the most touching moments in his humanitarian journey and highlights the urgent need for stronger social support systems for vulnerable elderly people in Ghana.
