The report circulating in the media that the chief arrested in connection with the murder of a prospective student-nurse at Mankessim has died is false.
The chief and his accomplice who were remanded into police custody by the court to reappear on October 4, 2022, are alive and in custody.
“We, therefore, urge the public to treat the report with the contempt it deserves.” Police noted
Background
The Mankessim Divisional Police Command in collaboration with Central Regional Police Command have arrested Nana Clark Onyaa who connived with a pastor and killed a 25-year-old trainee nurse, Georgina Asor Botchwey and buried her inside the chief’s house at Mankessim.
Tufuhene of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Onyaa went into hiding after he had information that his accomplice has been apprehended in connection with the murder of the student nurse.
But, the police through intelligence arrested the prime suspect Chief on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, in his girlfriend’s house at Ekumfi Akwakrom Hilltop.
Information gathered indicated that Nana Onyaa and the Pastor who doubles as the deceased Sister’s boyfriend first demanded Ghc15,000.00 from the family before the lady will be released.
Police say after the family failed to pay the amount, the Chief and the Pastor killed the lady, buried her inside the chief’s kitchen and allegedly used some of her body parts for rituals.
Court
District Court II in Cape Coast has remanded a self-styled Pastor and Tufuhene of Ekwamkrom into police custody to reappear before the court on 4th October 2022.
The two accused persons, Michael Darko alias Nana 1, a self-styled Pastor and Christopher Ekow Clarke, Tufuhene of Ekwamkrom, a suburb of Mankessim in the Central region were arrested at their various hideouts for allegedly kidnapping, murdering and burying a student nurse.
The two have confessed to murdering the victim, Georgina Asor Botwe, for money rituals.
Georgina Asor Botchwey, 22, went missing over a week ago and notices were shared in the hope of finding her.
The two accused persons were arrested at their various hideouts following a Police investigation.
According to report, during Police interrogation, suspect Michael Darko, who is the alleged boyfriend of the senior sister of the deceased victim and was last seen with her, led Police to the location where they had buried her after the murder.
Her body was later exhumed by police at the home of the chief Nana Clarke in Mankessim, where they were led by the pastor.
The deceased’s body has been deposited at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.