A fetish priest has been arrested at Abetima, a farming community near Okrakwadwo in the Okere District in the Eastern region for digging a grave of a man buried five months ago for rituals for a yet to be identified Prophet at Nkurakan.
The fetish priest and his accomplices were spotted by some youth from the Okrakwadwo community who were heading towards Abetima village, digging the grave in the evening.
The suspects mentioned names of some opinion leaders granting permission to perform some rituals on the grave
However, the fetish priest and his accomplices escaped when the youth in the community got wild and mobilized to the scene.
The fetish priest returned to the community the next morning to apologize to the opinion leaders he claimed granted him permission, but was arrested by the youth in the community in a chaotic and near-violent manner.
“They were digging the grave of the man buried 5 to 6 months. However, they escaped when the guys mobilized people to get them arrested.
So the following morning, the fetish priest returned to the community to apologize to some opinion leaders he mentioned their names as people who permitted him to dig the grave just so to escape lynching”. Stephen Narh, Secretary to the Chief of the community told Bryt FM.
He continued that ” So we went to the cemetery with the fetish priest. We noticed they have dig the grave. We saw something like blood but he said it was the blood of a duck used for the rituals. We saw a machete penetrate to the head side of the grave. He removed a black cat buried in the grave and black cloth then something like bones wrapped in a cloth, then some chemical “.
The fetish priest claimed he was performing the rituals for a Prophet he refused to mention his name but says is based in Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality.
The suspect was handed over to the Okrakwadwo police station.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
