The
New Juaben Municipal Police Command in the Eastern Region has arrested
Kwaku Larbi Amo, a forty-one year old farmer at Nkurakan, near Koforidua
for allegedly killing his wife, Comfort Obiri, forty years, over food.
The
suspect is alleged to have beaten his wife to pulp for failing to cook
food for the family having been given GHC10.00 to prepare supper. The
suspect and deceased had been married for the past 25 years and blessed
with six children.
The incident occurred at Nkurakan on December
23, 2014; however, the suspect deserted the community and went into
hiding at Akwaduuso, a farming community in the Atiwa District.
Information
gathered by the Daily Heritage indicates that on that fateful day the
suspect gave the wife, now deceased, GHC10.00 to prepare supper for the
family, however, upon his return to the house, he saw the children
eating banku without fish.
The suspect was told by the children that the deceased had left the house to a friend’s house, which he followed.
When
he got to the house, the suspect saw the deceased eating a bowl of fufu
with her friend which got him furious, and thus dragged the deceased
into the darkness and allegedly beat her to pulp. The suspect left the
deceased to his fate when she felt unconscious.
Some residents in
the area rushed to the scene and took the deceased, who had bruises on
the body with blood gushing out from the nose to the Koforidua
Government Hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival.
A
report was made to the Police, however, the suspect deserted the
community but the Police, a few days ago had a tip off that the suspect
had been seen hiding at Akwaduuso, a village in the Atiwa District.
The
investigator in-charge of the case, L/C Joshua kwoffie thus led a team
of police officers to the community at dawn to street the suspect on
Sunday. |
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