Serial Killings of Farmers At Kwahu

The police at Nkwatia, Kwahu, are investigating the circumstances leading to the death of a 60-year old farmer, Kwabena Owusu.

Police sources told Chronicle that the deceased went to his farm on July 23 in the morning and did not return.

The next morning his relatives organised a search party, which found him dead at the farm with deep cuts on his neck and throat.

The search party then informed the police who went for the body, which has since been deposited at the Atibie Government Hospital. No arrest has so far been made.

The mystery murder is the second in one month to be recorded in the Kwahu South District.

The first, which was also reported in the Chronicle of July 19, occurred at a village called Dadease near Sempoa on July 12.

A Fulani herdsman called Ali Braimah keeping the cattle of a farmer, Eric Dwamena was enticed out of his bedroom and his neck cut with a cutlass deep in the night.

About four months before the attack, another Fulani looking after those same animals, Ali Nyanya, had been butchered in February.

Even before the two were killed at Dadease, a clash between Fulani herdsmen and other settlers at Sempoa and surrounding villages had left about ten people massacred early this year.

The Nkawkaw division of the police service which oversees the district say they are vigorously investigating all the killings.