Accused in Kasoa Ritual Murder Gives Chilling Account

The first accused person, Felix Nyarko in the alleged murder of 13-year-old Ishmael Abdallah at Kasoa,  has given a heart-wrenching account of how together with the second accused person, they killed the deceased three years ago.

Addressing the court on oath, Felix recounted how the deceased was lured into the uncompleted building, beaten with a wooden stick, hit with a block on the head and buried while he was still breathing.

Though Felix has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, opening his defence in the criminal case, he admitted to killing the deceased together with the second accused person.

He narrated that the deceased was killed in furtherance of completing a process to get money.

According to him, the idea was hatched following an advert he chanced on Lucky TV where a female host announced that with GHc 5,000 he can be made rich.

Upon notifying the second accused, Nicholas Kini, a decision was made to contact the fetish priest, who in addition to the GHc 5,000 requested that they present a human being.

According to his account, the second accused advised that the deceased be used as he was a close friend to the first accused.

They first hatched a plot to kidnap the deceased and ask a ransom of GHc 5,000 from his parents. But the kidnapping attempt was foiled due to the inability of the first accused to cover the mouth of the deceased with a handkerchief filled with a medicine which was to aid in capturing the deceased.

He however explained that the deceased at a later date was invited to the uncompleted building and was rather killed.

Story Nana Kwaku Boffah