Vulture meat man jailed 6 months

The Times reports in a front-page capture that Kwabena Manu, 37 and unemployed, arrested last week in Kumasi for killing and dressing vultures for sale as chicken to unsuspecting 'chopbar' operators, was on Tuesday sentenced to six months in hard labour by a Circuit Tribunal.

He claimed some herbalists contracted him to supply them with the heads of the vultures but when asked by the court to name who the herbalists were, he could not.

Prosecuting, Inspector J.K. Afful said that about 2 p.m on January 5, some golfers at the Kumasi Course area, acting upon a tip off that someone was killing vultures for sale to some chopbar operators and khebab sellers as chicken, traced Manu to his hideout and arrested him in the process of strangling two vultures.

An interrogation revealed that he had already killed six of the vultures.

Inspector Afful said that Manu initially told the golfers that he was going to use the heads of the vultures for medicine but dissatisfied, the golfers took him and the vultures to the Ridge Police Station in Kumasi where he was detained.