Police and residents of Asmah Camp near Dunkwa – On Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region are currently on a manhunt for two farmers who attacked and inflicted multiple cutlass wounds on a cocoa purchasing clerk for failing to pay them.
The two suspects identified only as Solo and Kwabena are now at large after attacking Kwabena Tawiah- a cocoa purchasing clerk in a heated argument that ensued between them over failure to pay for bags of cocoa beans purchased from them.
Bryt News Central Regional Correspondent Eric Owusu Amponsah reports that the two (2) farmers accosted the Cocoa Clerk to demand their money having sold the dried cocoa beans to him for about a month and a half.
Tempers flared up which resulted in a fight.
The two farmers pulled cutlasses and allegedly inflicted it multiple times on the Cocoa Clerk who bled profusely and collapsed. He was rushed to the Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast for treatment, an eyewitness, Berimaba Twum who saw what happened narrated.
Cocoa farmers across the country are struggling to get money from the licensed Buying companies (LBCs) for the purchase of their produce due to the government’s failure to release adequate funds for the purchase of 2020/2021 main crop season cocoa beans.
The situation has resulted in serious financial crises among cocoa farmers in the country.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
