Man Abandons Village For Dear Life

The burnt shop: Inset (Safo Kennedy)

The village of Tanoso near Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region is in the news again following the death of 25-year-old Kinglsey Asamoah.

The village attracted negative headlines recently following a series of ritual killings and when the youth there attacked the household of a certain Opanin Yaw, whom they accused of masterminding a chieftaincy dispute in the area and inflicted multiple injuries on his wives.

Members of the family of the deceased Kingsley Asamoah, as well as the youth of the area vented their spleen on one Safo Kennedy whom they suspected of killing their kinsman and colleague.

Fearing for his life, the suspect fled the town, seeking refuge, it was suspected, in the nation's capital of Accra.

With the family of the deceased not letting go their demand for his head, many residents of the area who spoke to DAILY GUIDE said it is a matter of time before Safo Kennedy is nabbed.

A resident who gave his name as Kwesi Owusu narrated that 'the whole skirmish began when Safo had a brawl with some youth of the area who played football near where Safo had his shop, in which he sold electrical appliances.'

He said, 'The ball normally hit his shop once in a while as the boys played and so he had always had problems with them.

'On this particular day, the ball hit the shop one too many times and the shop owner lashed out resulting in the fracas and eventually the fight between the shop owner and the deceased, with Safo issuing a death threat on Kingsley.'

The source disclosed that when Kingsley was found dead in a bush 8 days later, with stab wounds in the neck and stomach, the youth of the town and family of the deceased, suspecting that Safo had a hand in it, descended on the latter, who managed to escape narrowly and went into hiding.

Consequently, his shop was set ablaze, with items such as television, DVD and CD players among others being destroyed.

The distraught mother of Safo, Madam Dora, told DAILY GUIDE that her son was being blamed for nothing.

'What happened was purely circumstantial. I know my son, he cannot kill another human being. He is being hounded for an offence he has not committed,' she lamented amid sobs.

When DAILY GUIDE contacted the Abuakwa Police, the station officer who gave his name as Cpl Moses Opoku disclosed that no such case had been reported to them.

From I.F. Joe Awuah, Tanoso