A fetish priest and a watchman have appeared before the Agona Swedru Circuit Court presided over by Mr C. A. Wilson in connection with their alleged kidnapping of a fetish priestess at Awutu Beraku.

Okomfo Nai Aprah, 26, and Harruna Alhassan, alias Kwabena Mensah, 35, claimed not liable to the charges of conspiracy to commit crime and kidnapping.

Their alleged victim was identified as Okomfo Efua Nyamekye, also known as Okomfo Effe, wife of the fetish priest.

The court granted them bail in the sum of 4000 Ghana cedis with a surety each until October 17.

The court has also ordered that the case be forwarded to the Attorney-Genera’s Department in Cape Coast for advice as to the appropriate charge to be preferred against them.

The facts as related by Detective Chief Inspector R.A. Boamah, were that about six years ago, Nai Aprah performed the customary rites to make Okomfo Efua Nyamekye, also a fetish priestess, his wife.

Three years later they divorced and her father, Nana Tufuhen Owia Kwame I of Gomoa Ekroful, went and packed her belongings from the house of Okomfo Nai Aprah at Awutu Beraku. The divorced wife, however, later returned to her ex-husband without the knowledge and consent of her father.

The father later got to know of their reunion and went there to warn his daughter that since she had gone back to her ex-husband without his knowledge and the consent of any of her family members, he (the father) would not entertain any complaint from her again.

Then in August this year, word reached her siblings that Okomfo Nyamekye had not been seen for some time. The siblings, therefore, confronted Okomfo Nai Aprah who told them that their sister had travelled.

The siblings and their father were however not satisfied with his explanation and so reported the issue to the police.

The prosecutor said that in the course of police investigations, Alhassan, a watchman, informed the police that Okomfo Nyamekye had travelled to Nigeria and that he knew her whereabouts in that country so the police should leave Nai Aprah alone.

He, however, could not lead the police to look for the missing fetish priestess who had been seen earlier by some witnesses to be living with Nai Aprah. As of the date on which the pair were brought to court, she was still missing, Mr Boamah added.


Source: The Mirror