An eight-year-old girl, Josephine Akyekuo who was reported missing at Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region last Sunday, was later found dead in a cocoa farm on Monday.
According to information gathered, Josephine was in the house with her parents last Sunday afternoon. However, surprisingly, the girl disappeared from the house and her whereabouts was not known.
Several attempts to find her yielded no results. Unfortunately, news broke out the next day that she had been found murdered and her lifeless body was lying in a cocoa farm, near Nkwakaw, a suburb of Sefwi Wiawso.
The lifeless body of Josephine was found by a female cocoa farmer.
Meanwhile, some of the residents have linked the alleged murder of the eight-year-old girl to ritual killing.
The residents asserted that the purported ritual murderers might have used a syringe to draw blood from the girl for their alleged ritual purposes, which led to the death of the girl and her lifeless body was later dumped in the cocoa farm.
“We suspect the alleged killers used a syringe to draw blood from the girl’s body. This is the second time such case has happened. But we will allow the police to do their investigation,” they noted.
An opinion leader, Joseph Dadzie, speaking to journalists, disclosed that the first incident happened near a fitting shop close to the Sefwi Asawinso police station.
He said in that case, a mentally unstable woman was murdered and some parts of her body severed. Her lifeless body was left at the place she had been sleeping over the years.
“This has brought some kind of fear and panic among residents living in and around Sefwi Asawinso, particularly the women,” he alleged.
He therefore called for tight security and effective policing in the Sefwi enclave.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi