My "Coke" Husband Wants Me Dead

A 38-YEAR old businesswoman resident at Community 18 near Sakumono is crying foul over how the Sakumono District Police Command is handling a case in which her husband allegedly hired thugs to kill her at their residence a few weeks ago.

Farida Khalid who looked worried told DAILY GUIDE that her husband, Issaka Nantoh, a 53-year old alleged cocaine peddler to whom she has been married for several years, wants her dead because she warned him to desist from his cocaine trade.

She said he had been jailed for several years abroad after he attempted smuggling cocaine into Belgium adding that she had to stay alone throughout the period of his incarceration in that country while she waited and prayed for his release.

He expressed surprise that the man whom she supported after his return from jail now wanted her dead.

“He is doing all this because I have told him to stop this cocaine business I hear he was doing way back before he married me which I did not know anyway,” she added.

Recounting her ordeal she narrated that she was in Dubai when her sister who lived with her in her husband’s house called to tell her that he had arrived from a trip abroad and had locked the residence preventing her from getting access to the building.

She said she quickly returned home to find the entrance of the house locked with different padlocks.

“My sister and I had to actually scale the wall so we could get into the yard where we spent the night in the corridor till the next morning when a man and his family arrived to tell us that they had rented the residence from my husband but I explained that I lived there with him and that the place was not for rent.”

Farida continued that a few weeks after that incident, Issaka who had earlier moved out and packed her personal belongings into the garage arrived and warned her to move out of the house since he wanted it rented. He later asked her to allow him in because he wanted to talk to her.

“I was surprised to see him in the house because the gate to the yard was locked with padlocks.

I later realized that he scaled the wall; a situation which heightened my fears because he had earlier on threatened to deal with me if I did not vacate the building,” she said.

According to her, soon after opening the gate to the main building, some young men numbering about six pushed her into the yard and quickly tied her with a rope on the orders of her husband as they hurriedly packed her things out of the garage.

She said she used hr cell phone which she had hidden in her cloth to call for help from the Community 18 police station where she had earlier reported the case and Sakumono District Police Command.

She said those two phone calls saved her life as a team of police men together with the policewoman at Sakumono later arrived and arrested her husband and the thugs including her stepson.

One of the thugs believed to have been hired from Maamobi allegedly abused one of the arresting officers at the scene. Farida’s stepson is also on record to have also verbally assaulted her promising to do everything to end her marriage to his father.

She expressed worry over the situation since both her husband and the thugs were yet to be brought before a law court to face charges of trying to kill her.

“I just want the police to help me retrieve my lost gold necklace which I bought for $3,000, an amount of $10,000 he borrowed from me sometime back as well as other monies that I used during the construction of the house for which today he wants me dead.

If he is able to do all these I would go away and leave him to do whatever he wants to do with his life,” she noted.

She noted the case is being handled in a manner that is making her uncomfortable because Issaka and his men were yet to be brought to court after they were bailed shortly after their arrest.

She also denied suggestions by her husband who had gone to the Police Headquarters in Accra to say that she had asked for a private settlement. “The investigator in the case is not pushing me to do that.

I want the matter settled in court beside this is the same man who assaulted me just a few days ago. To be honest with you, I’m afraid for my life.”

When DAILY GUIDE contacted Issaka Nantoh at the Sakumono District Police Command to either confirm or deny his wife’s claims, he declined to speak to this reporter adding that the case is with the police who are investigating it.