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BY: Emmanuel Bonney
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Uncontrollable tears, shock and, at some point, rage were the emotions that were expressed as the family, friends and other sympathisers came together yesterday to bid 10-year-old Ishmael Mensah Abdallah, who was gruesomely murdered by his friends for ritual purposes last Saturday.
Ishmael, a Class Four pupil of the Maranatha Preparatory and Junior High School, was killed on Holy Saturday by two teenagers, Nicholas Kini, 18, and Felix Nyarko, 16, at Coca Cola, near Lamptey Mills, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region.
It was difficult for people to hold back their tears when the body of the lad, wrapped in black cloth and laid out on a stretcher, was brought to the family house for Muslim prayers before burial.
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Member of Parliament for Bortianor Ngleshie-Amanfro, Sylvester Tetteh has called for some infrastructure to be put in place to enable the police combat crime in every vicinity.
His comment follows the tragic event which occurred at Lamptey Mills, a town in Kasoa.
Felix Nyarko,16, and Nicholas Kiki,18 allegedly murdered a 10-year-old boy, Ishmael Mensah Abdallah with intentions of using his body parts for money rituals.
Speaking to
JoyNews, Mr Tetteh emphasised the need to improve logistics and presence of police as a way to safeguarding citizens.
“This area is part of my constituency…. we have a ward standard of police per a thousand persons in an area and of course we need some infrastructure to be able to combat crime in every vicinity,” he said.
“It is only now that we’ve understood the gravity of their activities to the extent of taking a life in the name of giving money to the youth for that matter.
“My children have shown that there is too much fear around,” one of the irate residents was quoted as saying.
“The whole world has heard bad news about Amanase… We need to be angry,” the Assemblyman, Paul Som Abedi, added.
The Ofaakor District Magistrate Court remanded into police custody the two teenagers who allegedly killed the 10-year-old.
Felix Nyarko, 15, and Nicholas King, 18 on Saturday, April 3, reportedly lured and killed the 10-year-old.
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Ms Charity Mensah, a traditional priestess who was arrested in connection with a recent alleged ritual killing that has received widespread condemnation has been granted bail.
The suspect was arrested alongside her errand boy, Desmond Nii Adjei, at Amanase near Suhum in the Eastern Region on April 7, 2021.
Charity Mensah was granted bail due to her condition as a nursing mother.
She is expected to regularly present herself to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to assist in investigations.
During interrogations, it emerged that she was in touch with one of the two teenagers arrested by the Kasoa Police last Saturday.
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The Awutu Senya East Municipal Security Council says it will roll out security measures within Kasoa and its environs, following concerns of a surge in violent crimes there.
Speaking to JoyNews’ the MCE Michael Assuman Mensah said that most of the crimes happening are not within the Kasoa jurisdiction.
However, because some of the crimes take place in neighbouring towns and Kasoan in the past gained notoriety, it has become imperative to ensure the assembly and police improve security in the area.
“People are easily culpable of identifying or giving a relative kind of location, like ‘this place near Kasoa or Kasoa Adewuka’. Adewuka is very far away from Kasoa, so, this is how we find ourselves.”