Police hunt for suspected wife killer

Kwabena Adjei, a 40 year old farmer from Oboadeka, a farming community in the Eastern Region, suspected to have murdered his wife in cold blood on the morning of Tuesday,(March 01), is being hunted for by the police.

A source at the Nsawam Police told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the body of Awo Okyerewa, the 35 year old trader, has been conveyed to the police Hospital in Accra pending postmortem examination.

Giving the facts, the police source said the couple on Monday (yesterday) engaged in hot exchanges over a misunderstanding on some issues.

Early this morning at about 7.30 Hours, the deceased left home to collect monies from her debtors and on reaching a spot close to Uombofo, a nearby village, the husband who had ambushed her, suddenly emerged from the bush attacked and slashed her with the sharp cutlass he wielded.

The Police said Adjei cut the back of his wife’s neck and her hands after which she fell and died on the spot in a pool of blood.

He fled the scene immediately, the police source said.