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.

[contextly_sidebar id=”PvyaU3IQRwNAvm3WOWswpxSvjTacPMcQ”]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.

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.

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.

The suspect has since been transferred to the Regional Police Command at Sekondi pending further investigations, while the human head concealed in a black polythene bag has been conveyed to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital morgue.

Boy identified

One Peter Tetteh, from Bogoso in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region, has identified the head as his 12-year-old son, Ebenezer Tetteh, a student of Grace International School at Bogoso.

Reports say a number of residents in Bogoso flooded the Bogoso Police station in fear and shock.

Sources from the school indicate that the deceased was seen in the school in the morning but after some students were sacked for the non-payment of school fees, he may have left.

However, according to the father of the beheaded boy, his son has paid his fees in full.

Crime and rituals

This arrest follows the police uncovering a shrine at Akatapo, a village near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, where it is suspected that some criminals fortify themselves before undertaking in illegal operations.

Four persons were arrested at the shrine during the swoop and the police also retrieved a human head in a black polythene bag which had been placed on one of the idols at the shrine.

The human head, which was in an advanced stage of decomposition, was found with a telephone number written on a piece of paper and tied around it.

The fetish priest and owner of the shrine is currently on the run and is alleged to have been engaged in several rituals, especially money doubling rituals, for his clients.

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By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, said that a suspect had confessed to killing eight women on the orders of businessmen.

The murders were for ritual sacrifices, Gen Kayihura told residents of Nansana municipality.

Local media say 17 women have been killed in a gruesome manner since May.

Police spokesman Asan Kasingye told the BBC that while the murders occurred in the same district, they were not all related.

He said that in the majority of cases, the victims were sex workers who had been raped and strangled in isolated places in “the wee hours of the morning”.

“Two were students,” he said, adding that in five cases the women had been killed by their estranged partners.

Mr Kasingye said the municipalities were at least 60 km (40 miles) apart.

He said that Gen Kayihura was reacting to local media reports that the police had failed to apprehend the culprits.

“In all but one of the cases the suspects have been apprehended,” Mr Kasingye said.

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Source: BBC

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