The Oda Police is investigating a 57-year-old mother, Akua Kesewaa, and her 26-year-old son, Emmanuel Aboagye, for the lynching of a 56-year-old farmer in Akyem Manso in the Eastern Region.
Chief Superintendent Daniel Amoako, the commander of the Oda Municipal Police, confirmed the incident to the Daily Graphic last Tuesday, October 17. At around 12.30 p.m. on October 12, 2023, Kesewaa returned home from a one-week observance of a deceased person at Manso to find her relative Kwame Poakwa, who had left the family home for about ten years and rented his room to someone, splattering water in her container with his hand.
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He said the two got angry when Kesewaa asked Poakwa why he was spraying her with water.
Alleged killing
Chief Superintendent Amoako said that Kesewaa battered Poakwa with a club and then convinced her son Aboagye to assist her in beating up the farmer.
He said that Poakwa was brutally beaten by the two suspects using clubs till he passed out.
According to the Municipal Police Commander, a witness in the case, Michael Assuming, who was roused from his sleep to separate the fighters, suffered many wounds as a result of their attacks.
He said that Poakwa was beaten senseless by the two suspects and was taken to the Oda Government Hospital by some kind people. However, when he got there, the hospital staff declared him dead.
The two suspects were taken into custody to help with the investigation, supposing that a complaint had been made to the Manso police.
The commander of the municipal police department declared that the two detained suspects would appear in court as soon as the investigations were finished.
According to him, the deceased’s body has been placed in the mortuary of the Oda Government Hospital for postmortem analysis and preservation.
