{"id":408422,"date":"2018-03-09T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=408422"},"modified":"2018-03-10T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T07:36:09","slug":"2-arrested-in-kumasi-for-beheading-5-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=408422","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in Kumasi for beheading 5-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested two persons for allegedly beheading a five-year-old boy.<\/p>\n

The two; Vikuriba Joe Zoot, 21, and Kozel Borama, 25, were arrested on March 7, 2018 with the human head in their possession at Ampabame near Sokoban in Kumasi.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”vYYX0S3qtxY9chzWt7EjEo9MWp8Ahhvc”]The deceased, identified as Silas Kunsana, a twin, was picked up by the suspects at Suame, a suburb of Kumasi.<\/p>\n

According to police, the suspects lured the deceased with Yoghurt and took him to the uncompleted building in a Taxi cab to commit the act.<\/p>\n

The suspects\u00a0approached a spiritualist, Sheik Alhaji Mohammed Maheey at Suame to buy the human head.<\/p>\n

The spiritualist accepted to buy the head for GHc 2,500 and secretly alerted the police.<\/p>\n

The Police proceeded to the residence of the spiritualist at Suame Zongo and arrested the suspects with the fresh head, which was concealed in a black polythene bag.<\/p>\n

The suspects later led police to retrieve the decapitated body at an uncompleted building on the outskirts of Sokoban.<\/p>\n

Police said they also noticed that both hands of the deceased had been cut off.<\/p>\n

Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Ken Yeboah, who addressed journalists in Kumasi on the matter said the headless body has been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) morgue.<\/p>\n

He said police have also located the deceased\u2019s parents to assist in investigations. COP Yeboah indicated that Police have invited the spiritualist for questioning.<\/p>\n

He said the suspects have been charged with murder and will be arraigned soon.<\/p>\n

23-yr old man arrested with young boy\u2019s head<\/strong><\/p>\n

In February this year, the Agona Nkwanta District Police Command arrested 23-year-old Alex Tetteh for possessing a human head, believed to be that of a young boy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The suspect was arrested by the people of Sankro, a village near Dixcove when he was searching for a potential buyer of the human part.The Western Regional Police PRO, ASP Olivia Adiku, told Takoradi-based Skyypower FM that the suspect had attempted to sell the human head to a spiritualist around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, February 6.<\/p>\n

According to her, the spiritualist became suspicious and raised an alarm, and with the help of other residents, the suspect was arrested and handed over to the police.<\/p>\n

When interrogated by the police, the suspect, Alex Tetteh, claimed to have decapitated a boy, believed to be twelve [12] years at Bogoso with two accomplices.<\/p>\n

The headless body of the 12-year-old boy identified as Ebenezer Tetteh was later found still in uniform in a bush on the Baakoyemobo road, after Agyeikrom near Bogoso.<\/p>\n

The body was found after the family of the deceased organized a search party to comb through the town.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Hafiz Tijani\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested two persons for allegedly beheading a five-year-old boy. The two; Vikuriba Joe Zoot, 21, and Kozel Borama, 25, were arrested on March 7, 2018 with the human head in their possession at Ampabame near Sokoban in Kumasi. [contextly_sidebar id=”vYYX0S3qtxY9chzWt7EjEo9MWp8Ahhvc”]The deceased, identified as Silas Kunsana, a twin, was picked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":408442,"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":[11],"tags":[658,17749,3],"class_list":["post-408422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ashanti-region","tag-beheading","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408422","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=408422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/408442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}