There is uneasy calm in the Alavanyo Traditional Area of the Hohoe Municipality in the Volta Region following the suspected abduction of a 62-year-old man who went missing during the climax of the recent SASADU Festival in the town.<\/p>\n
The SASADU Festival, which is a rotational festival celebrated among the four Traditional Areas of Saviefe, Akrofu, Sovie and Alavanyo to mark their migration from the Ewes’ ancestral home in Notsie, Togo, was hosted this year by the Alavanyo Traditional Area over the weekend.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”0kbzU1Suqlm1nuSZBqrdhWto2MQJk4tX”]The festival, which was extensively celebrated despite recurring conflicts in the area, turned sour at the tail end when one of the revelers went missing mysteriously.<\/p>\n
George Akorli, 62, could not be traced shortly after eyewitnesses purportedly saw him walk about in a drunken stupor.<\/p>\n
After several failed attempts to trace him, Citi News<\/strong> gathered that relatives called his phone, and an unknown fellow picked up, claiming he had George in his custody; indicating he had him slain with his corpse in his possession.<\/p>\n The caller was alleged to have given his name as Lucifer.<\/p>\n The situation is brewing tension in the town as women went wild in their red attires demanding the whereabouts of the said man from authorities.<\/p>\n Although similar incidents have occurred in the past, mostly as a result of the decades-old land dispute between the Alavanyo traditional area and that of Nkonya, expectations are that\u00a0such cases are treated as crimes committed by individuals.<\/p>\n The Kpando Police Command declined to give details on the matter to Citi News<\/strong> but said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: King Nobert Akpabli\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is uneasy calm in the Alavanyo Traditional Area of the Hohoe Municipality in the Volta Region following the suspected abduction of a 62-year-old man who went missing during the climax of the recent SASADU Festival in the town. The SASADU Festival, which is a rotational festival celebrated among the four Traditional Areas of Saviefe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":378672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3520,3,3522],"class_list":["post-378668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-alavanyo","tag-ghana-news","tag-nkonya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378668","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=378668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}