Court Remands A “Pastor” And Four Others, Over Witchcraft Allegation
The five suspects, before they left for prison |
The Bolgatanga District Court, presided over by His Worship Osman
Abdul-Hakeem, has remanded another set of five persons in Prison
custody, for threatening and molesting three old women they suspected to
be witches, at Gare, in the Talensi district in the Upper East Region.
According to Daily Guide, The Court also granted a Bench Warrant to the Police for the arrest of one Tarebon who is on the run.
Their remand comes just two days after some five suspects were
remanded in Police custody in connection with the lynching of an old
woman, in the same Talensi district.
On Thursday June 15, 2017
Police in Bolgatanga brought five persons, including a 29 year old
Evangelist, Akwesi Ali Baba, before the Bolgatanga Court over an alleged
witchcraft accusation. They are to reappear in Court on June 30, 2017.
Presenting the facts in Court, Police Prosecutor, Inspector Gilbert
Boaten Addae said the four other suspects, Doug Sapak, Mba Gudabe,
Missah Samlate, Malupaaya Mbanyia are farmers.
The Evangelist has been charged with publication of false news
intended to cause fear and alarm to the public. The others were charged
with threat of death, unlawful entry and causing unlawful damage.
On June 6, 2017, at about 6:00am,
the 29 year old Evangelist accused the three old women of being witches
and based on that, the other accused persons and others, led by one
Tarebon, who is on the run, organised and attacked the three women and
threatened to kill them.
The old women managed and ran to the Palace of the Gare Chief, to report the accusations leveled against them.
The accused managed to whisk the women from the Chief”s palace to
meet a “Witch Doctor” at Yeliwongo, a borders town between the Bongo
district in the Upper East and the Republic of Burkina-Faso. While
there, the women were subjected to a trail ordeal at the hands of the
“Witch Doctor” for three days.
On June 9, 2017, the accused brought the women back to Gare and
told the Chief that the women have been confirmed to be witches by their
“witch Doctor” at Yeliwongo and that, they were sending the women to
Gambaga for another trail.
The Chief refused them their desire and asked them to release the
women, which provoked them (accused), who threatened to kill the women,
and for that reason, the Chief decided to keep the women in his
Palace.
The accused went to the rooms of the women in search of a pot the Evangelist had told them they had been bewitched them with.
A concerned resident who heard of the incident, reported the case
to the Police. Police proceeded to the scene, but the accused persons
run away on seeing the Police, but were later arrested later.
On June 15 the Evangelist was also arrested at Pelungu upon a tip
off. He appeared in Court with a swollen eye, which he might have had
from the people who apprehended him before the Police arrived at the
scene.
Source: Daily Guide
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