Please give them my eyes - Widow accused of bewitching blind twins says

- Abena Asanewa, a 62-year-old Ghanaian woman in Obuasi wants to give her eyes to her two grandchildren who became blind

- This was after the poor grandmother was accused of using witchcraft to charm the two brothers who are of school-going age

- The twins' father abandoned them after their mother passed on and they both became blind

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A 62-year-old Ghanaian grandmother whose twin grandchildren have become blind has said she wants to give them her eyes after she was accused of bewitching them.

In an interview with Crime Check Foundation, the woman tearfully narrated that the father of the children abandoned them in her care after they became visually impaired.

The woman named Abena Asanewa lives in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region where she borrowed money from many people to seek medical care for the kids to no avail.

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Watch the full interview below:

The first one started experiencing eye problems when he was in his sophomore year in junior high school.

By the time he was in SHS, both eyes stopped functioning completely, compelling him to stop schooling and depend on his brother for survival.

The brother, who by this time, started welding to support the family also developed eye problems suddenly and is also blind now.

One of the doctors mentioned that they were suffering from glaucoma but no intervention he made solved any bit of the problem.

They now depend on their grandmother since their father abandoned them following the death of their mother.

The 62-year-old granny is also accused of being a witch and she wishes to give her eyes to the two brothers.

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In another YEN.com.gh report, a young medical doctor in Ghana named Ruhaimatu Osman has indicated that she was a bad student back in senior high school, far away from the medical profession until the timely intervention of her teacher.

In a post by US Embassy Ghana, it is indicated that Dr Ruhaimatu Osman, an alumnus of St. Louis Senior High School, works at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua

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