Kumah Nudzifor, a 41-year-old welder based in Ho in the Volta Region, has been sentenced to death by hanging . He was found guilty of murder by a seven–member jury at the Ho High Court presided over by Justice Kofi Essel Mensah.
He committed the crime on May 16, 2002. The convict who pleaded not guilty was alleged to have stabbed his brother, Samuel Dorgbefu, 23, with a knife to death on the spot at their residence at Dome, a suburb of Ho.
According to the facts of the case, both Nudzifor and Dorgbefu were siblings of the same father living in their respective houses on the same plot of land owned by their late father, Senyo Dorgbefu at Ho- Dome, which was entrusted in the care of Nudzifor’s mother.
The two, who had been staying on the land since 2001, were always quarrelling over the ownership of the plot of land leading to the point where Nudzifor charged Dorgbefu on May 15, 2002 of planting juju on the land.
Nudzifor then went and brought in a fetish priest the following day to dig out the juju. When Dorgbefu was hinted, he did not take kindly to this so he went to demand their exit from the house.
When they refused, Dorgbefu overturned the table on which the items for the rituals were placed. This infuriated Nudzifor, who picked the knife being used for the rituals and stabbed Dorgbefu in the chest and he fell dead on the spot.
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