In connection with the finding of a man's decapitated body in a jungle on the outskirts of Kpetoe in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region, the police have detained a traditional priest and a herbalist.
On June 15, 2022, Afetor Yesu's body was found.
The traditional priest John Adonu, sometimes known as J.J., age 23, and the herbalist Dornyo Bobo Agbemawli, age 33, are the suspects.
Superintendent Benedicta Ansah, the superintendent in charge of the Kpetoe District Police, told the Daily Graphic yesterday[June 27, 2022] that the arrests were made as a result of information that the two suspects had been staying with the main suspect, Wisdom Wordutor, a Kpetoe fetish priest, before Yesu vanished.
After being examined at the Police Hospital in Accra, the body was later returned to the family for burial.
The traditional priest and the herbalist, according to Supt Ansah, were being held by the police, and a search had been launched for Wordutor.
Emilia Emefa Adzimah, the Chief Executive of the Agotime-Ziope District Assembly, revealed to the newspaper in a separate interview that on Monday, June 13, 2022, a man on a motorcycle arrived to Yesu's home and asked for a room to rent.
Although the visitor was reportedly informed by Yesu that there was no room available for rent in the house, he was reportedly given the assurance that he could locate a place for rent in the neighbourhood.
The two then departed Yesu's home on the stranger's motorcycle, came back, and departed once again, but Yesu did not go back to her home.
confirmed fears
Yesu's disappearance, according to Ms. Adzimah, who is also the Chairperson of the District Security Council, caused anxiety among family and community members.
When Yesu's decapitated body was discovered in a thicket on the third day, she stated, "those concerns were verified."
She said that the crime was being investigated and urged people to come forward with any information that would help the authorities.
The tragedy in Kpetoe is the region's second homicide in a calendar year.
Cornelius Eboe Negble, a teenager, was allegedly taken by four or five guys in June of last year from a funeral in his birthplace of Nornyikpo, close to Kpetoe, to a forest where his neck was slashed before his body parts were separated and placed at a shrine.
Four persons have been taken into custody in relation to that incident.