Mayhem at Amanase as 4 Fetish Priests arrested amidst gunshots LISTEN
Scenes from Amanase yesterday. INSET: The boy who was almost kidnapped
Four fetish priests, including the couple whose activities allegedly enthralled two teenagers to kill an 11-year-old boy, purposely for money rituals, have been attacked by irate youth at Amanase near Suhum in the Eastern Region.
The violence was so intense that it took the intervention of the police from three police districts in the region to rescue the priests and send them into police custody.
They ended up burning a car, belonging to one of the fetish priests, into ashes.
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The suspected ritualists identified as Prince Adjololo, 26, Solomon Adjololo, 28, Mintah Benjamin, 23, Felix Haya,27, and Akwasi Tenkorang, 27, were arrested by a section of the youth for allegedly attempting to abduct a child in the community for rituals. The suspects believed to be linked to the fetish priestess and priest at the centre of the murder of the 11-year-old boy at Kasoa. It is reported that the suspects were handed over to Nana Addo Agyekum, Gyaasehene of Amanase, and his elders who held the suspects, hostage, while waiting for the Police to arrest them. But some angry youth wielding sticks, cutlasses had surrounded the palace demanding the release of the suspected ritualists.