Widow who boldly put live snake in late husband's casket speaks for the first time (Video)
- A Ghanaian woman who was captured burying her late husband with a live python has revealed that it was a gift from her husband to her daughter
- She explained that she had to bury it with him since he was no longer alive to take care of the snake
- The woman whose name was withheld debunked claims that her husband cheated on her, nor slept with a snake
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A Ghanaian woman who went viral after she was captured burying her late husband with a live python has disclosed that it was a gift from her hubby to her daughter.
Speaking in an interview on Accra-based Neat FM, she said that she had to bury the snake with her husband because he was no longer alive to take care of it, debunking claims that he had cheated on her.
There were claims that she buried the snake with her late husband because it supposedly killed him whilst others also said he cheated on her.
Source: Instagram
Netizens made these assertions after she was spotted with the live python hanging around her neck as pallbearers prepared to carry the remains of her late husband to its final resting place.
In the video that went viral, a voiceover narrating why she embarked on the ritual had claimed the snake bit the tongue of the deceased and that was how he met his untimely death, thus she thought it apt to bury him with what killed him.
Watch the video below.
Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported a broadcast journalist with Citi FM/Citi TV, Caleb Kudah, has disclosed how he was physically assaulted after he was arrested by National Security operatives on Tuesday, May 11.
The host of Backpage on Citi TV was arrested for filming some abandoned cars procured by MASLOC that had been parked at the Ministry of National Security for several years.
Narrating his ordeal on The Point of View on Citi TV hosted by Bernard Avle, Kudah revealed that he was detained and interrogated for hours on Tuesday, May 11.
In other news, a businessman, Eden Bright Dankwah, has disclosed that he once cheated on his wife with another woman.
Dankwah who first met his wife in 2011 and married her explained that it is difficult to stay with one woman after years of marriage and that she becomes a friend.
He was speaking in an interview with DJ Nyaami of SVTV Africa about his personal, business, and marriage life when he confessed.
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