The timely intervention of armed Police personnel dispatched from Suhum on Friday morning foiled an attempt by angry residents of Amanase in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern region, from setting ablaze shrine of the fetish priestess in the centre of the killing of an 11-year-old boy at Kasoa.
The furious residents mobilized at the Chief’s palace in their numbers clad in red dresses and headgears, wielding sticks, cutlasses and highly inflammable substances to initiate the attack on the shrine.
The action of the youth were sanctioned by the local Chiefs who were to pour libation and perform rituals to purify the town.
The situation would have been chaotic and destructive had the police not intervened .
The armed Police surrounded the shrine to prevent any attack .
The Suhum Police Commander later addressed the chiefs and the youth, advised them not to take the laws into their hands to commit a crime.
He assured them that Justice will be served.
However, the residents say they will also advice themselves should the police fail to prosecute the suspects.
The residents said the incident has tarnished the image of the community to the extent that customers who used to patronize gari which is the mainstay of the community are stigmatizing them.
Arrest
The Fetish Priestess Charity Mensah was arrested Wednesday in a rambo-style by armed Police from the Greater Accra Regional Police headquarters.
One other person yet to be identified was picked up at the shrine.
Meanwhile, the police have subsequently arrested the main suspect, Solomon Adjololo, popularly known as Rasta who is husband to Charity Mensah, the accomplice fetish priestess.
Suspected killers Remanded.
Meanwhile, the Ofaakor District Magistrate Court on Tuesday remanded into police custody the two teenagers who allegedly killed the 11-year-old boy last Saturday at Coca Cola, near Lamptey Mills in Kasoa.
The accused persons are to reappear on April 20, 2021.
The court was presided over by Her Worship, Mrs Rosemond Vera Ocloo.
The accused, Felix Nyarko, 15, and Nicholas Kini, 17, are alleged to have conspired to kill the Class Four pupil of the Maranatha School, Ishmael Mensah for a money ritual.
The suspects had earlier revealed to police after their arrest that, a fetish priest directed them to bring body part for ritual money that would make them rich after taking the number on a Television advertisement.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
