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Fetish priest 'kills' man; demands 12,000 for ritual cleansing

By MyJoyOnline
General News Fetish priest 'kills' man; demands 12,000 for ritual cleansing
APR 23, 2015 LISTEN

Drama unfolded Thursday at the premises of the New Juaben Municipal Police Command when a 23-year-old fetish priest, was kept in custody for claiming to have killed a 62-year-old man.

Kwaku Koranteng stormed the police station with a casket containing the decomposing body, insisting that he was keeping the dead body pending some rituals before burial.

Joy News’ Eastern Regional correspondent, Kofi Siaw said the fetish priest emerged in the house of the deceased immediately after his passing to inform the family that he caused the death.

He said he killed the man spiritually and this later manifested physically on Tuesday, Kofi Siaw recounted what the family told him. The fetish priest then warned that any family member that touches the dead body would also die, to which they complied.

The priest then instructed his errand boys to carry the corpse to his shrine for him to conduct some rituals to pave way for his burial.

Before the rituals would be conducted, he demanded that the family pays him 12,000 cedis.

But Ofosu Eric, son of the deceased told Joy News, they suspected the fetish priest wanted to swindle them by claiming that the death was spiritual.

Refusing to release the body to the family for burial, the fetish priest was accosted and sent to the police station.

The body has been retrieved from him and sent to the morgue for proper preservation pending investigations.

Kwaku Koranteng has been kept behind bars to assist the police in their investigations.

Story by Ghana | Myjoyonline.com| Isaac Essel | [email protected] | twitter @isaacessel

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