Fashion designer arrested for attempting to sacrifice his 13-year-old nephew for money rituals
- The Police in the Bono Region have arrested a fashion designer for engaging in money rituals
- The 23-year-old Benjamin Adjei was arrested for attempting to use his 13-year-old nephew for the act
- He is to appear before court today, Monday, May 17, 2021
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The Bono Regional Police have arrested a 23-year-old fashion designer for attempting to sacrifice his nephew for money rituals.
Source: UGC
In a report filed by Ghana News Agency (GNA) and sighted by YEN.com.gh, the suspect, Benjamin Adjei reportedly tried using his 13-year-old nephew, Listowel Adjei, for the nefarious act.
He was arrested at the Abesim-Tano police barrier on the Sunyani-Kumasi highway on his way to the shrine with the 13-year-old upon a tipoff, GNA reported citing the police.
The suspect admitted the crime during interrogations, the Police District Sergeant Benjamin Lartey confirmed.
“On Saturday, May 15, the informant informed the police the suspect had succeeded and lured his nephew into a taxi cab ready to convey him to the place for the rituals”.
“So, the police laid ambush at Abesim-Tanoso barrier and arrested the suspect”, D/Sgt Lartey stated.
The police retrieved a handbag containing one big cutlass, a knife, red calico, a big pot, quantities of cola nuts, cowries, and a sum of GH₵300.00 from the suspect.
In an earlier YEN.com.gh report, angry residents of Amanase, a suburb of Suhum in the Eastern Region set ablaze a vehicle belonging to some five suspected ritual murderers.
The suspects are; Prince Adjololo, 26, Solomon Adjololo, 28, Mintah Benjamin, 23, Felix Haya, 27, and Akwasi Tenkorang, 27.
They were arrested by a mob when they allegedly tried abducting a child in the community for rituals, Myjoyonline reported.
The irate youth took the suspects to the chiefs’ palace for interrogation, howling for their blood while wielding sticks and machetes.
They would have been lynched to death but for the timely intervention of police reinforcement from Kibi and Suhum.
Angry with the protection being given to the suspects by the police, the residents reportedly pelted stones at the police, damaging a police vehicle with registration number GP 2867 in the process.
The police fired warning shots to disperse the angry youth before they could rescue the suspects.
In other news, there has been a ghastly murder at Dida in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.
According to a report sighted on Classfmonline, a 25-year-old woman was murdered in the district on Friday, May 7, 2021.
The deceased was identified as one Abena Afriyie popularly called “Mother”. She was reportedly found dead at the outskirts of the Dida community with three of her right fingers, two left fingers, and some of her toes missing.
One of her breasts was also cut, the Unit Committee Chairman for the area, Osei Kwadwo, confirmed.
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