{"id":326523,"date":"2017-06-08T13:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326523"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:52:39","slug":"nabdam-mp-seeks-justice-for-lynched-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326523","title":{"rendered":"Nabdam MP seeks justice for lynched \u2018witch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Member of Parliament for Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Mark Nawarni, has called on the Police to thoroughly investigate and bring to book persons who lynched and killed<\/strong><\/a><\/span> an alleged witch at Pelungu<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

He said there is enough evidence for the police<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to identify, arrest and prosecute the wrongdoers.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”QrE9iPZKdyv3r1JtLJO5pnlPIr0h0w1R”]\u201cSome people took the suspected witch to the Chief\u2019s palace and it wasn\u2019t that dark so we would see the ring leaders. We also know that other chiefs had released the old lady\u2026.All that took place and there are enough witnesses. If the police are serious, they can get information to the right people,\u201d he told Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mark Nawarni said despite verbal complaints to various authorities including the Deputy Regional Minister, no urgent action has been taken to serve justice to the woman.<\/p>\n

The deceased, Yenboka Kenna, aged 67, was killed at the Pelungu market in the Nabdam District by an angry mob that accused her of bewitching people in the area, a common trend in that part of the country.<\/p>\n

Her family has partly blamed the Pelungu Chief for the death.<\/p>\n

According to an elder of the family, Tibil Nyaabil, this murder would have been prevented if the chief of Pelungu, Naab Sierig Sore Sobil (IV) had accommodated her in his palace until the mob had dispersed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deceased (Yenboka Kenna) came from church on Sunday and left for Pelungu market and was accused of being a witch by some youth, who later took her to the chief of Pelungu. At the chief\u2019s palace, the chief Naab Sierig Sobil IV could not establish any evidence of witchcraft and advised that she should be taken home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026So the accused woman was released to us (family members) and in the process of taking her home, the angry youth attacked us so we had to run for our lives and they beat her to death at the Pelungu market. \u00a0so the next morning(Monday), we went and saw her dead and reported to the Nabdam police who later released the body to the husband\u2019s family of the deceased in Sakote for burial\u201d Mr. Tibil stated.<\/p>\n

The MP, Mark Nawarni, is unhappy the police permitted the burial of the deceased when it hadn\u2019t conducted a postmortem that could assist it in investigations.<\/p>\n

Three persons who were arrested in connection with the barbaric act have subsequently been released on bail by the police, who cited lack of evidence as a reason for temporarily setting them free.<\/p>\n

The legislator, however said he intends to formally petition the Inspector General of Police, David Asante Appeatu, to help arrest the perpetrators of the crime.<\/p>\n

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\nBy: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Member of Parliament for Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Mark Nawarni, has called on the Police to thoroughly investigate and bring to book persons who lynched and killed an alleged witch at Pelungu. He said there is enough evidence for the police to identify, arrest and prosecute the wrongdoers. [contextly_sidebar id=”QrE9iPZKdyv3r1JtLJO5pnlPIr0h0w1R”]\u201cSome people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,7991,7992],"class_list":["post-326523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-mark-nawarni","tag-pelungu-chief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}