Girl, 7 beheaded for sakawa

A seven year old girl, Ewura Ama Agyapomaah, has met her untimely death after being beheaded by a young man suspected to be a Sakawa man at Asona, in the Kwahu West Municipality in the Eastern Region on Thursday morning.

The suspect currently on admission allegedly slit the girl’s throat and took away her tongue and heart, when she went to attend to nature’s call at a public toilet.

The body of the deceased which was found at the toilet in a pool of blood has been deposited at the Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy, while the suspect who was nearly lynched by a mob but was rescued by the police, is currently battling for his life at the hospital.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that, the deceased who was staying with her parents at Nkawkaw – Amanfrom, and went to her grandmother, Adjoa Browah at Asona during the holidays and was expected to leave on Friday.

According to a resident of Asona, Nana Oppong, the suspect, identified as Taminu believed to be in his late thirties and hailed from an area called Pra on the Kumasi road, came to the community that fateful Thursday morning.

Oppong indicated that, the suspect who was hiding in a thicket near the public toilet, followed the little girl into the toilet and chopped off her head.

As fate would have it, a little boy who was also going to the toilet stumbled on the suspect just as he had finished removing the girl’s body parts and was coming out with blood all over him and raised alarm which attracted scores of people to the scene.

“The man then took to his heels and fled into the bush but the townsfolk organised themselves and searched for him till they found him in a nearby village called Awerenani. He told them that, he did not commit the act alone and that the rest had ran away. The infuriated mob nearly lynched him, but for police intervention.”

Chief Supt. James Sarfo Peprah, the Nkawkaw Police commander confirmed the incident and said they had to whisk the suspect to a different location, after the mob besieged the Nkawkaw Central Police Station where he was earlier sent to, baying for his blood.

“The angry residents beat up the suspect mercilessly till he fell unconscious so after rescuing him we rushed him to the hospital for medical attention.”

According to Supt. James Sarfo Peprah, the police have launched full scale investigation into the matter.