A Magistrate Court sitting in Bolgatanga, has remanded into prison
custody a self-styled Evangelist, and four others for accusing and
detaining three accused witches in Duusi, a suburb of Tongo in the
Talensi district of the Upper East Region of North Ghana.
This comes after four members of the same family were on Wednesday remanded for the lynching of an alleged ‘witch’ at Yenboka Kenna, a town in Pelungu, Ghana .
The five suspects identified as Evangelist Akwesi Ali Baba 29, Douk
Sapark 30, Messiah Somlate 25, Mba Gurang 40, Malpayah Mbayin 27 and one
Tarabon, currently at large were arrested and subsequently arraigned on
Thursday, 15th June 2017.
They accused Bayeta Kiimbey, Ateensage Ziyaaba and Sagteg Yamboreya of witchcraft.
The court held that on 6th June 2017, the Evangelist Akwesi Ali Baba
accused the complainants of being ‘witches’ and based on that, the
accused persons were attacked and threatened with death by some irate
persons led by Tarebon.
The accused persons managed to escape and reported the matter to the chief of Gaare, Naab Yamboreya Gbmere.
The chief Naab Yamboreya, kept the accused persons at his palace for
safety for three days, before calling on the police to rescue them.
Following the chief's decision, the four suspects including the one at
large unlawfully entered the rooms of the accused persons and destroyed
properties in search of supposed witch-pots and other items they
believed were used to bewitch people as claimed by the evangelist.
They were later arrested by the police and arraigned.
The state prosecutor, Mr. Gilbert Boateng Addae, prayed the court to
remand the suspects into prison custody to enable police complete
investigations for their trial.
The presiding judge of the Bolgatanga Magistrate Court, His Worship
Osman Abdul-Hakin, granted the request of the prosecutor and remanded
the suspects into prison custody.
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