The Assin Fosu District Court remanded a 62-year-old farmer named Emmanuel Tetteh, who also works as a fetish priest at Assin Akwetey No2 in the Assin South District of the Central Region, for three weeks in police custody for allegedly killing his friend, Emmanuel Kofi Koranteng, during a fight on a cocoa farm.

Following a prayer by the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Gilbert Ayongo, the case was postponed to December 19, 2022 by the court presided over by His Worship Abdul Majid Iliasu.

The prosecution stated that the accused and the deceased shared a farm and were good friends before the accused accused the dead of stealing his pistol, which caused their friendship to break down.

On January 31, 2022, the deceased said he was going to his hometown of Larteh in the Eastern Region. However, after a week, a call to the town's residents revealed that the deceased had not been there.

This sparked suspicion among Akwetey No2 residents, so on February 7, 2022, the local assemblyman and a few locals assembled a search team for the deceased in the village, where the body was found.

The search team proceeded to the deceased farm and found the decomposed body of the deceased, shirts, and Wellington boots, with the skull dislocated and lying a few meters away from their boundaries.

They highly suspected the accused who miraculously vanished from the village when the deceased went missing.

The prosecution said the police obtained an order from the court and declare the accused wanted after an official complaint about the case has been made to the police.

The Accused was published in the media for apprehension and on 18th November 2022,he was arrested at Twifo Hemang upon a tip-off and was brought to Assin Fosu to Assin in the investigation.

Meanwhile, forensic analysis conducted on the skeletal remains disclosed the deceased was shot in the abdomen, 4 pellets were subsequently found and same was kept for evidential purposes.

BACKGROUND

On 10th February 2022, Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan reported that a decomposed body of a farmer who went missing has been discovered in bizarre circumstances in a cocoa farm at Assin Akwetey-no. 2 in the Assin South District of the Central.

An eyewitness who doubles as Assemblymember of the area, Mr. Tetteh Robert in an interview said he owed the deceased some amount of money but had not had a glimpse of him for weeks so he decided to go search for him in his village only to discover his mortal remains with the skull dislocated and lying few meters away from the boundaries of the suspects and the deceased farm boundaries.

Though the cause of the death was not known immediately, they suspect one Emmanuel Tetteh who 3 days before the demise of the deceased had a misunderstanding with the deceased over a piece of land and a missing gun which resulted in a scuffle.

The suspect and his family including school children have left the village leaving his undried cocoa beans behind.