Wa Women and Juvenile Unit arrests driver

The Women and Juvenile Unit (WAJU) of the Upper West Regional Police Command has arrested a 53 year-old driver for allegedly pouring acid on his wife's clothes at Fadama, a suburb of Wa.

Inspector Daniel Dorkpoh, Upper West Regional Police Public Relations Officer told the media that the suspect, Alhaji Yusif Imoro, a driver of P & W. Ghanem Limited, was arrested for sprinkling a substance suspected to be acid on his wife's clothes.

He said Madam Awulatu Abass, 45, the victim, told Police that though she and her husband lived together under one roof they had not been on talking terms for the past three years.

On November 11, she dried her washed on a line. She alleged that she later saw her husband sprinkling the substance on them.

Madam Abass said no sooner had he finished pouring the substance on the clothes than they started disintegrating. Imoro has denied charge.