Man rapes ex-wife on farm; butchers her and commits suicide

But for the divine intervention of God, a 54-year-old woman, Afia Gyamah could have met her untimely death after she was cruelly attacked by her ex-husband, Kwaku Siaw, a.k.a Kwaku Tuntum, who raped and hit her with a club on a farm at Masu near Dormaa-Ahenkro.

Madam Afia Gyamah, who is currently on admission at the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital told The Chronicle that she was hired as a labourer (by-day) to work on some one’s farm, so she could have some money to feed herself after her marriage with Kwaku Siaw broke up.

As she was working, the ex-husband surprisingly appeared from nowhere, asking her to assist him carry a load of food items from a nearby footpath, but she (Gyamah) was reluctant, looking at the mood of the ex-husband.

According to Gyamah, the husband then told her to say her last prayer, because he (Kwaku Siaw) was there to kill her for divorcing him.

Upon hearing those words, the 54-year-old woman tried to plead for mercy and Kwaku Siaw agreed to forgive her on condition that she allows him to have sex with her in the bush.

Madam Afia Gyamah consented to the suggestion, but pleaded with the ex-husband not to have the sex with her in the bush and that she would come to his house in the evening for them to enjoy themselves. She also told the ex-husband that she was prepared to reconcile with him.

The highly incensed Kwaku Siaw, who was on heat, did not heed to the plea of the ex-wife and forcibly raped her on the farm.

After the despicable act, he hit the woman with a club severally, till the 54 year-old woman collapsed and was motionless.

Kwaku Siaw, thinking that the woman was dead quickly fled the scene. Fortunately for Madam Afia Gyamah, she regained her consciousness and managed to get to a roadside, where some good Samaritans saw her and rushed her to the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital, where she was admitted. After she narrated her ordeal to the hospital authorities and the people who assisted her to the hospital, they rushed to the house of Kwaku Siaw, only to realise that he had committed suicide by drinking what was suspected to be poison. He died on the way to the hospital.

According to Madam Afia Gyamah, she broke up with the husband after he instructed her not to feed her junior brothers with his money (Chop Money) because of the current difficult economic situation.

She said they have been married for 7 years without children, but each of the couple had their own children, before coming together.

Madam Gyamah had been living in her marital home with some of her younger siblings. According to Afia Gyamah, about three weeks ago, the husband ordered her to stop feeding her siblings.

But as an elder sister to the brothers, she told the husband it was impossible to eat and leave the brothers unfed, but the husband insisted that if the wife would continue feeding them, then the marriage must end.

The matter was brought before some elders of Masu for resolution, but the husband proved adamant and insisted that he cannot continue with the marriage, and the elders rescheduled the next meeting to Saturday, October 11, for a final decision to be taken.

Kwaku Siaw could not wait for the decision day and decided to kill the ex-wife and commit suicide as well.

Meanwhile the body of Kwaku Siaw remains in the morgue at the Dormaa Presbyterian hospital.