Three persons arrested for transporting suspected human bones to a fetish priest at Ayensuano in the Eastern region have been remanded into Police custody by Nsawam Circuit Court.
The accused persons are Amenuvor Nicholas ,20, Awatey David Okra ,22 old driver and Kwaku Samuel ,22, were arraigned before the court presided Her Lordship Mrs.Diana Adu -Anane on Tuesday April 13,2021.
Their plea were however not taken because the prosecutor said preparation were underway to send the suspected human bones to Police Hospital on Wednesday April 14,2021 for laboratory analysis and confirmation.
The accused persons who were represented by a counsel today ,will reappear before the court on April 20,2021.
Background
Police in Ayensuano district in the Eastern region the accused persons transporting relatively large quantities of suspected human bones to a fetish priest .
According to Ayensuano Police, on April 8,2021 at 12:40pm,the unit committee chairman of Kwamekyere Electoral Area – Aware Isaac together with two others- arrested to the Coaltar Police station suspects -Awatey David Okra , 22, driver and Amenuvor Nicholas , 20, to report that on April 7,2021 at about 10:30pm upon tip off ,intercepted a Daewoo taxi cab with registration number GE 5063-15 onboard with the suspects from Suhum direction towards Kwamekyere, a community in the District for allegedly carrying human bones.
One other occupant managed to escape with a pan containing some unidentified materials.
A search conducted in the taxi revealed a black suit case containing some old bones suspected to be that of human bones.
Police rearrested the suspects and upon interrogation ,alleged, one Djoka of Niifio near Suhum sent them deliver the suspected human bones to a fetish priest named Gagba of Kwamekyere village in the same district.
Police together with both suspects, visited the shrine of the said Gagba but the fetish priest had escaped.
Police investigators spotted a newly buried pot within the premises of the shrine containing an old skull also suspected to be human skull and a pan stuffed with fetish regalia.
The acting Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command Francis Gomado told mybrytfmonline.com
“The suite case with the bones, the pot containing the skull and the pan with its contents were retained for evidential purposes whilst the two suspects are detained for further investigation. Meanwhile, efforts are underway to trace and apprehend the other accomplices for the appropriate action to be taken and also to send the bones and the skull to Police Hospital mortuary for preservation, determination, examination and identification”
The inccident is happening few days after a 22 year old man Isaac Larbi, was arrested in Onakwase community in the same district for allegedly killing and depositing body of his wife in a dumping site to decompose beyond recognition.
The suspect is alleged to have removed the body parts for money rituals.
There have been many other incidents of killings for money rituals linked to fetish priests in recent times creating huge and cry about their activities.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
