Farmer commits suicide after being caught stealing plantain

A 53-year-old farmer, Barsare Tawiah has committed suicide by hanging himself in a cocoa Farm in the Eastern Region.

The body of the deceased has been deposited by the Police at Kibi Government Hospital.

According to a family source in Asiakwa, the deceased left home to harvest some crops in his farm but later, the family was informed by another farmer that he caught the deceased red-handed stealing his two bunches of plantain and that demanded GHC300 from the deceased when he returned home.

The humiliating information went viral in the community and unable to handle the shame the incident has brought on him, Tawiah left home to his cocoa farm to commit suicide.

The Station Officer at Asiakwa, Chief Inspector Osei Manu, confirmed the incident adding that investigation is ongoing.