A THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-old farmer from Akpafu Todzi in the Hohoe Municipality, Frank Kwakye, has been placed in police custody for allegedly murdering a farmer, Emmanuel Adasu, aged 50.
Kwakye was alleged to have hit the head of the deceased many times with a pestle until he fell unconscious. Adasu was rushed to the Hohoe Government Hospital where he died the following day.
According to the Hohoe Police, on August 11, this year, the deceased who resided at Sokpo, a village near Todzi, visited his niece, Madam Patience Wolanyo and spent some days with her.
On August 14, while he assisted his niece to process rice, Kwakye visited them and joined their conversation.
The police quoting the deceased’s niece, said without any provocation, Kwakye seized the pestle the deceased was using to process the rice and hit his head many times rendering him unconscious.
People in the neighbourhood were attracted to the scene by the screams of Patience, who rushed Adasu to the hospital where he died the following day.
Sensing danger, Kwakye took to his heels and took refuge in the bush where he threatened the people pursuing him with a machete.
A search party of police personnel and civilians searched for him and managed to arrest him after he was shot in the leg.
According to the police, Kwakye would be prosecuted after they had completed their investigations.
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