Akyem Kukurantumi based fetish Priest -Togbe Shitor on Monday, April 12, 2021, surrendered to Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin at Ofori Panin Fie in Kyebi in the Eastern Region over leaked videos from his shrine which captured a naked woman chanting to kill President Akufo Addo and Okuapehene Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akufo II and others.
The fetish priest denied filming the woman but suspects that the videos were taken at his blindside by one of his apprentices by pseudonym Rasta who is no longer working with him.
Okyenhene rebuked the fetish priest that, he cannot exonerate himself since the incident took place at his shrine.
“You don’t respect decency in your work. How can you bath an old woman at your shrine for rituals to kill the President and Okuapehene”.
“Okuapehene is my nephew, President is my elder brother but now my grandson after ascending the throne as Okyenhene. But you had the guts to cast a spell on them on my land not even outside Okyeman. Your conduct is all over the world and it has brought disrepute to Okyeman. Now when you look at the dailies -the death of a child has been linked to a Fetish priestess at Amanase, another person arrested with human bones at Coaltar then you are also incanting to kill the President”.
The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin issued a one-week ultimatum to Togbe Shitor to produce the woman seen in the leaked videos.
Okyenhene said the fetish priestess and her husband at Amanase arrested by the Police for their role in the killing of the 11-year-old boy will be banished.
The overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa traditional area also hinted that the traditional council will rise against fetish priests committing crimes on Okyeman lands if the state fails to act.
“When I decide right now to banish you from my land, issues of constitutionality will be raised, but you are bringing Okyeman into disrepute. But if the government fails to act on these things we will rise”
The Presiding Member for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Asiedu Offei had called for punishment for the suspect woman.
According to Hon. Asiedu Offei, the action of the woman has brought the name of Okuapeman into disrepute.
‘It a disgrace for Okuapeman, a disgrace to the woman and her family. What has been done can even affect perception about women in Okuapeman. The chiefs must summon the woman to answer questions and if there is the need for purification of the stool, it must be done. Christianity and formal education in Ghana are widely known to have their roots in Akuapem. It is a disgrace that Nananom should not sit on it aloof. It is a very disgrace to Okuapeman. You want to disgrace Akuapems and even kill the President”.
Hon. Asiedu Offei is popularly known as “No Size” said, the woman’s visit to the shrine might be linked to some deaths recorded before and after the enstoolment of the new Okuapehene.
“Victor Newman has died, mother of Okuapehene is dead, Krontihene Asafohene who also died mysteriously can be linked. Whether what she did worked or not because some individuals have died, we can link it. I, for instance, had a mild stroke but we serve a living God, I am hale and hearty now. I would have died. Some people are scared”. He said in an interview with Abena Opoku Ahwenepa on Dadi 101.1Fm.
Leaked Videos
Last week, Mybrytfmonline.com published a leaked video about the woman at a shrine performing rituals and incantations to kill President of Ghana -Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Okuapehene Oseadeyo Kwasi Akufo II, Victor Newman a presidential staffer now deceased, and other persons who supported what she termed illegal enstoolment of the current Okuapehene.
The woman identified herself as Attaa, who is close to the family of Odehye Kwasi Akufo -one of the candidates who attempted to ascend the Okuapehene stool.
The woman reportedly visited Torgbe Shitor Shrine in Akyem Kukurantumi in Abuakwa North Municipality of the Eastern Region where the fetish priest and his cohorts secretly filmed her nakedness.
In one of the videos, the woman had a piece of cloth around her waist enchanting to the gods that “agoo agoo, nananom, it is me Ataa sister to Odehye Kwasi Akufo who is being denied the Okuapehene stool. I am the one putting this photo into the coffin. Anyone who is part of this grand scheme from the family to Court must be killed and summoned to the spiritual world to answer”. [Fetish priest interrupts], drives away someone who accompanied the woman.
The fetish priest then asked the woman to touch an amount of money she was holding to her heart area and drop it on the shrine.
The Fetish priest subsequently, directed the woman to inform Odehye Kwasi Akufo not to eat any food that was prepared with palm oil. The fetish priest also warned the woman to inform Odehye Kwesi Akufo not to get closer or sit on the stool because the god was going to sit on it for a while therefore anyone who sits on it will die. “Madam listens very well, the stool must be left to be where it is, this is what the god is saying. It is going to sit on it to work, therefore anyone who sits on it will be cleared by the god “
The spiritualist took the woman to another room where he made incantations for minutes and gave a knife to stab a photo believe to be that of new Okuapehene Oseadeyo Kwasi Akuffo II, multiple times while enchanting on the photo to hand over the stool to Odehye Kwasi Akufo.
The woman is seen in another video with the fetish priest who asked her to undress and make incantation over herbal concoction in a bucket, and mention the names of persons who are working against Odehye Kwasi Akufo and his family. “Those who have tied our souls in the middle of the Akropong so that we don’t get the support of the subjects must be dealt with -Sammy Mfum, Nana Ofei, Baamuhene, Victor Newman, President Akufo Addo are all included. Nananom deals with them and also protects our family. Now, I bath this concoction to cancel any death on our family and send it back to them “. The woman said.
In another leaked video, the naked woman was taken to an open bathhouse where another shrine was erected. The woman was directed by the fetish priest to bath the liquid concoction put in a locally weaved basket, and chant for goodwill upon her brother Odehye Kwasi Akuffo while wishing evil for his opponents including President Akufo Addo.
The fetish priest then makes final incantation while filming the nakedness of the woman. He asked the woman to fill a plastic bottle with the concoction and take it away together with an egg to give to Odehye Kwasi Akufo for similar incantation.
The new Okuapehene was enstooled and outdoors on Sunday, May 3, 2020, under heavy state security.
Odehye Kwadwo Kesse, 34, was given the stool name Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akuffo II.
He becomes the ninth Chief to ascend the Ofori Kuma Stool.
The opposing family believes President Akufo Addo and some top government officials were the mastermind of the machination that denied Odehye Kwasi Akufo the stool.
Cyber Security Act
Ghana has passed the Cybersecurity Act 2020 in an attempt to crack down on taking and circulating or publishing naked and sexual images of people.
Under the new law, persons who circulate naked images of others could face fines of between $5200 and $10,000 (GH 30,000 to GH60,000).
They can also face jail terms as well from five, 10 to 15, or 25 years.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
