The two were among a three-man syndicate who reportedly stole a smart phone at about 8:00am on Sunday.

The victim of the theft noticed his phone was missing. Upon confrontation, the suspects attempted to flee the scene.

However, two of the suspects were quickly apprehended by the irate youth and they were subjected to hours-long torture.

The Assembly member of the Beaho electoral area, Kenneth Obeng, who confirmed the news said they were pelted with stones and bricks to death.

The third suspect was subsequently nabbed and one of his hands was amputated.

He, however, managed to flee with his bloody hand and is still at large.

Eyewitnesses who spoke to Adom News disclosed that the area is a crime prone area, hence there is no mercy for any criminal who is caught.

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The victim was beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being involved in a murder incident.

Information gathered indicated that the deceased was on his way to Aborbeano to visit his child when some persons allegedly identified him as a culprit.

In an interview with Adom News, Assemblyman for Ekumfi Asaafa, Prince Dankwa, who doubles as a family member of the deceased, revealed that he was in communication with them until 2:00pm when his line went silent.

This led his family to make an official complaint at the Komenda Police Station, only to be informed of his lynching.

The police team that visited the scene confirmed his killing to the media.

The Aburansa residents have refused to hand over the body, despite interventions by the traditional leaders.

The two-minutes-48-seconds video captured a young man confessing in the selfie-video how his brothers together with some of his neighbours burnt a visitor who came to seek refuge from them.

Narrating the incident without clearly giving out where the incident happened, the young man said the alleged thief approached them for shelter and after providing the said man with a room he decided to rob them.

According to A Plus, the purpose of sharing the video was to call on the rightful authorities to confirm if the act is true or not for further investigations.

He posted the video with the caption: Did this really happen? Can someone confirm please? Kindly share to help uncover the truth.

Meanwhile, the video was shared on video-sharing platform, TikTok, with the handle @carponzy.

Watch the video below:

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The deceased, Kpabitey Emmanuel Sackitey, and the surviving accomplice now in critical condition were apprehended and allegedly beaten by a mob of students after invading the girls dormitory of the school to steal.

The deceased has been identified as a former pantry man at the school but now doing same work at Krobo Girls Senior High School.

The incident occurred on January 21, 2022 at about 10:00pm.

According to the local Police, they received information from the Headmaster of Akro Secondary Technical school to the effect that two suspects invaded the schools girls dormitory and were apprehended and were being beaten by the students.

The Police Patrol team, led by Corporal Nsiah Douglas in charge of five men, immediately proceeded to the school scene and found the two suspects unconscious and were taken to St Martins De Poress Hospital for treatment, but one of the suspects who gave his name to police as Sackitey Emmanuel Kpabitey was pronounced dead on arrival while the other accomplice by name Odoi Solomon is in critical condition .

The body of the deceased has been deposited at the same hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy.

Following the incident, a group of town folks stormed the school Saturday to launch reprisal attack leading to clashes .

Some property have reportedly been damaged. Parents who were in the school for a PTA meeting were caught up in the clashes.

It took the intervention of the police reinforcement team to restore law and order .

Meanwhile, the Municipal Chief Executive for Lower Manya Krobo, Simon Kwaku Tetteh, has been addressing the students to remain calm .

He assured of police protection.

According to their colleague riders, the culprits snatched the phone from a lady who was walking on the pedestrian walkway before speeding off.

Bystanders, who witnessed the events unfold, gave them a chase and caught up with them at the junction of Rabai and Mumia Roads in Buruburu estate.

The riders were immediately joined by the irate residents who immediately set the duo on fire in the middle of the road.

The boda boda operators accused the two of being part of a phone-snatching gang that has been terrorising the residents of Nairobi and in turn soiling the name of the riders.

Police officers from the nearby police station could, however, not save the duo from lynching as they arrived minutes after the two were set on fire.

The angry residents and riders told K24 Digital that they will not report such matters to the police, arguing that such criminal elements had become a nuisance.

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The Nairobi police boss, Augustine Nthumbi, however, condemned the act and asked Kenyans not to take the law into their own hands.

“As much as these cases have become too much and annoying, I wouldn’t advise anyone to engage in such violent activities. We have police officers, and they are the ones who should implement the law,” Nthumbi, stated.

The man, identified as Kwame Dominic, is reported to have shot his wife during a misunderstanding on Thursday evening.

The wife, Mercy Mintah, aged 38, is said to have packed out of her husband’s house after threatening to file for a divorce.

However, on her way to the family house, the deceased allegedly ambushed and shot her to death midway her journey.

After committing the heinous crime, he fled the scene but was apprehended at Nsawora where he was beaten to pulp, leading to his death.

The Unit Committee Chairman, who is also a son of the deceased, Prince Bannor, narrated the incident in an interview with Adom News‘ Augustine Boah.

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Meanwhile, the chief of Sehwi Sika Ne Asem, Nana Kwao Esiafam, said the entire community was in shock after hearing the sad incident.

Describing it as alien, he revealed rituals would be performed to purify the area.

The corpses have since been deposited at the Wiawso Government Hospital mortuary by the police.

In one important way, what happened in the village gathering at which the old woman, Akua Denteh, was killed was very much like what happened on the street of Minneapolis when George Floyd was killed.

White policemen have been killing African-Americans in the United States for a long time, and so, shocking though the killing was, it wasn’t exactly a new phenomenon.

In much the same way, poor, lonely old women have been regularly branded witches and molested and sometimes killed in Ghana and so this was also not a new phenomenon.

The reactions to the two incidents have also been similar. There has been revulsion, there has been widespread condemnation and everybody who is anybody in the country has had something to say.

The refrain has been something like this should never happen again in our country.

But in very significant ways, what happened in the village gathering in Ghana is a more shocking thing. George Floyd was killed by a racist white policeman and that is what racist white policemen do.

Those who stood on the street in Minneapolis and watched the events unfold and recorded on their smartphones, tried to plead with Officer Derek Chauvin that George Floyd couldn’t breathe.

None of them tried to intervene because there were two other armed policemen standing ominously around the officer with his knee on George Floyd’s neck.

Despicable

With Akua Denteh, it was a community killing, the crowd that gathered participated in the murder, they chanted to encourage the lead executioner.

Let us not try to clothe our despicable incident in some high-falutin international language.

Let us be brutally frank here. It wasn’t just the villages of Kafaba who were acting out the macabre scene. I have seen on the front page of a national newspaper in this country, the photograph of a half-naked, elderly woman who looked disoriented to my eyes, and she was captioned as a witch who had been found in someone’s room and had fallen through a roof!

Nobody complained, nobody lodged a complaint with the National Media Commission (NMC).

We have all seen and heard so-called bishops and prophets who tell their congregations they are poor because of a witch in their home.

In this country, if you are female, poor and old, you are an immediate candidate to be labelled a witch.

It is not only in our villages and very rural parts that we see played out in everyday life this belief in witchcraft and labelling of old women as witches.

Under the cloak of culture and tradition, poor, old women are regularly called witches.

To be an old woman in this country is to be at risk, and there is no hiding place from any part of our society when it comes to those who would see you as a witch.

More than half the class of our brightest young people, medical students, say they believe in witchcraft, and I suspect a fair percentage of the medical doctors are also willing to see a witch in an old woman.

Priests believe in witchcraft, policemen believe in witchcraft, teachers believe in witchcraft, journalists believe in witchcraft, every time anyone is going through a difficult phase, witches are the reason.

Whereas if you had a Black American child you could train him to be extra careful when he is near a white policeman, there is no such identifiable source of danger to warn an old Ghanaian woman to avoid.

Your fellow women accuse you of being a witch with as much vigour and venom as the men, the young as much as old.

It is worth noting that in this video, the two persons whipping Akua Denteh are all female, the younger one, said to be the exorcist who stomps around while she whips a helpless, old woman, looks like she would have applied to be part of the firing squad in the days we used to execute people at the Teshie range.

This young woman is a sadist who has carved a niche for herself as a witch hunter. The claim in this sad story is that the townspeople were looking for someone to blame for the lack of rainfall in their area.

Indeed, when the witch hunter came into town, she had started with 18 women accused of being witches, and after an evening of torture, 17 of them admitted to being witches and being responsible for the lack of rainfall in the area this season.

Akua Denteh held out and insisted she wasn’t a witch and not responsible for the absence of rain in the town and that is how she ended up being tortured in the middle of the village.

So, witches are not only responsible for poverty, ill health, accidents and death in the family, they can stop the rain from falling as well.

Hunch

I have nothing to base my hunch on, but I suspect Akua Denteh is not 90 years old. She is said to be 90 years old because she has a shock of white hair on her head.

Every poor helpless woman, with grey hair is said to be 90 or 100 years old in this country. If she is 90, it would be easier to see her as dispensable and it would be justifiable to call her a witch.

I am 75 years old and if I hadn’t been dyeing my hair for the past 22 years, I would have white hair also. If I hadn’t been sent to school and become financially independent, I would, at the age of 75, be a helpless 90-year-old woman, labelled a witch and being publicly lynched.

But probably the part of the story that exposes our society, with its famed culture and tradition, is that her dead body was released to her family who have laid her to rest in the cemetery.

Her family, she had family. Some of them were probably in the watching crowd, or maybe had been among those who had put her up as a candidate for a witch.

We have to admit this was not a Kafaba, nor a Savannah region problem, it is a nationwide problem.

I know that there, but for the grace of God, it could have been me, Akua Ohene, and who knows if I might not yet end up like Akua Denteh. The shame is ours.

According to reports, the suspect was allegedly caught in the act with his gang around 4:30am on Saturday but the rest of the gang bolted leaving him behind.

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Speaking in an interview on Adom News, a resident, Haruna Rufai said he quickly rushed to the scene when he was informed about the intended action of the people.

The aspiring Assemblyman noted that, upon arrival, the angry mob had lynched the suspect.

Haruna Rufai added that, he reported the matter to the police when he saw the lifeless boy of the suspect at the crime scene.

“As someone vying for the Assemblyman position in the area, I was informed about the incident so when i noticed the suspect had been killed, I reported to the Lamashegu Divisional Police Command.” he stated.

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The sad incident occurred around 4:30am on Wednesday.

The victim, identified as Martha Owusu, in an interview with Adom News, narrated her ordeal:

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“He attacked me and began hitting me with a stick and scissors while demanding for money. I resisted and started screaming for help. I have sustained several wounds on my left hand.”

Listen to the victim talking to Kofi Adjei:

Meanwhile, the Ofaakor police patrol team has conveyed the body to the morgue.

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A group of angry Muslim youth on Friday nearly lynched an officer of the Ghana Police Service at Abossey Okai while they were heading to the Awudome cemetery around 9:00am for burial.

Reports indicated that the officer, who was nearly lynched, and is a member of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department, tried to stop the motor riders, who were in a funeral procession to the Audome cemetery, from causing vehicular traffic on the road.

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In an interview, the Kaneshie Police Commander, ACP Fakye Kumi, told Adom News his timely intervention through the dispatch of a police patrol team to the scene saved the policeman.

“The policeman, who was on duty to direct traffic at the Awudome cemetery, stopped the youth who were in a procession. They became agitated and attacked the policeman creating a chaotic scene and we had to rush here to calm the situation,” he stated.

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The policeman was later rushed to the hospital. Two of the suspects were arrested and sent to the Kaneshie Police Station.

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Police suspect the 45-year old chief was gruesomely lynched by a gang of land guards in the community under the Ga West Municipal Assembly.

According to the police, he was ambushed by the gang about hundred meters away from his residence when he was on his way to join a group of elders to perform traditional rites as part of activities to lift the ban on noise making in the area Thursday afternoon.

Police officers from the Amasaman divisional police command have deposited the mortal remains at the Police Hospital morgue, pending investigation. Meanwhile, the incident has forced more than hundred residents to abandon their homes.

At about 11:45 Thursday morning when the TV3 news team visited in the community, some families were seen parking their belongings to flee the community.

The family of the deceased would not however speak to the news team.

The deceased, Madam Yenboka Kenna, a widow, was killed at the Pelungu market on Monday, May 29, 2017.

The Regional Police Commander, DCOP Vincent Redeemer, told Citi News that the police cannot prove whether those arrested were directly involved in the lynching, but  they are currently assisting the police in investigation.

He said while conducting the investigations in the village where the incident happened, some young men came in to stop a witness from giving information to the police investigation, hence were picked up.

He said the police was hopeful they could help them identify those who carried out the murder.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Tindongo, the community where the deceased hails from, Tindong-Raan Sapana, has said that his attempts to gather more information about the crime have proven futile.

He said although the Pelungu chief has denied knowledge of the incident, he has instructed his people not to take revenge over the murder of the woman.

Tindong-Raan Sapana, however said there is very little he could do to seek justice for the deceased, since the husband and family of the deceased have not formally informed him of the death, and what they want to be done in connection with the incident.

Family of lynched ‘witch’ blames Pelungu chief

The family of the woman who was lynched on Sunday, May 28, has partly blamed the Chief of Pelungu, where the woman was killed for the incident.

According to an elder of the family, Tibil Nyaabil, this murder would have been prevented if the chief of Pelungu, Naab Sierig Sore Sobil (IV) had accommodated her in his palace until the mob had dispersed.

The debate over what has become known as mob  justice, has been rekindled following the gruesome murder of a military officer, who was mistaken for an armed robber.

The security agencies have vowed to deal ruthlessly with perpetrators of such crimes to ensure that the canker is entirely eliminated.

The man, Kugre Moses aged 36, called on the police to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to book. He was allegedly accused by some parents of the area of being a wizard who tries to enchant their children in the area to produce money for him.

Mr. Kugre said he was on his farmland when about five parents of some children in the area confronted him and started beating him up.

Mr. Kugre sustained head wounds and a fracture on his left leg. It took the intervention of the Zuarungu Police to rescue him to the BolgatangaHospitall for medical care.

He revealed further to Citi News that this was not the first time he had been accused of wizardry.

“I was accused of this issue sometime back by this same people and was taken to the Duusi chief and the chief refereed us to a soothsayer but the soothsayer proved my innocence.”

“I was at my farm when they came to take me back to the soothsayer again, but I told them I do not have money with me, they should take me home so that I will pick some money but they refused and started beating me. The four parents who attacked me are Kapiou Batimtaba, Nagbila Boare, Gwane Batimtaba, Yin Boare, Dogpobil Batimtaba, so I want the police to arrest them and make them face the law” Mr. Kugre narrated.

He is currently receiving treatment at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital.

Meanwhile, the Chief inspector of the Zuarungu police station, Stephen Amewugah told Citi News that, one suspect, Noah Yelgaoh, aged about 35 years, and involved in the attempted lynching, has been arrested by police to assist investigations.

The Upper East Region is one of the areas known for the despicable act of what has become known as mob justice or instance justice.

Family of lynched ‘witch’ blames Pelungu chief

On Thursday, the family of a woman who was lynched over suspicions of witchcraft on Sunday, May 28, has partly blamed the Chief of Pelungu, where the woman was killed for the incident.

The deceased, Yenboka Kenna, aged 67, was killed at the Pelungu market in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region by an angry mob that accused her of bewitching people in the area.

Soldier ‘mistakenly’ lynched and burnt at Diaso

The news of this attempted lynching comes at a time when the subject of citizens taking the law into their own hands on suspected wrongdoers, has come up for discussion.

The debate has been rekindled by the gruesome murder of a soldier, Captain Maxwell Mahama, who was lynched by community members at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region, on suspicion that he was an armed robber.

It later emerged that the soldier was wrongly accused because he was in the town with his colleagues on an anti-galamsey or illegal mining operation.

Daniel Appianing responding to the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama on Adom FM’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsem’ on Tuesday claimed that the lynched Army Captain was the head of a team from the military which has been protecting illegal Chinese galamseyers in the area.

Mr Appiaing said he was unaware that the officer was part of a detachment to the area assisting in the fight against galamsey.

As far as he was concerned, the residents resorted to lynching because they assumed he was protecting some Chinese nationals who were engaged in galamsey.

“There is a large number of military personnel protecting the Chinese and the lynched soldier is alleged to be part of it, in fact, he is said to be the leader… I am shocked they are not briefing you very well but rather claiming they are here to fight galamseyers,” he said.

His comment which did not go down well with some members of the pubic have led to several calls for him to be sacked from his position.

Reacting to the calls on the same show on Thursday, the leader of the Concerned Youth of Upper West Denkyira, Richmond Kodua noted that in as much as the comments of the DCE  in the wake of the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama is distasteful, that should not be enough grounds to warrant his immediate dismissal.

“Yes, our DCE’s comments were in a bad taste, we agree but we urge Ghanaians to exercise patience so we find solutions to the problem at hand instead of calling for his head. We plead on his behalf that the President will give him another chance because that’s all we want now,” he said.

According to them, Francis is a hardened notorious criminal known for snatching unregistered vehicles in the Asamankese area.

Due to this, the angry youth are demanding for him to be released so they can lynch him in a revenge attack.

Meanwhile, the Bawjiase Police Commander, ASP Bernard Norgah in an interview with Adom News’ Kofi Adjei urged the youth to remain calm whiles the law takes it course.

“It happened in Asamankese, he was pursued by motorists, he drove through Bawjiase and the patrol team there caught him.

“The Bawjiase police have amassed a thick mob seeking to lynch him. But we are doing everything possible to stop that from happening….” He said.

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