Police in Mankessim, in the Central Region, have detained a pastor after he admitted to aiding a local chief in the kidnapping, murder, and covert burial of a 25-year-old nurse trainee.
On Tuesday, September 20, the pastor and police detectives exhumed Georgina Asor Botchwey’s body from her room in the Tufuhen of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Crack.
According to evidence acquired by the media, the pastor and the chief abducted the nurse after having sex with her.
The two are alleged to have killed her after the acts and buried her in one of the chief’s rooms.
After being detained at Cape Coast, the clergyman confessed to the crime. The victim’s body was then exhumed at the chief’s apartment, where he then led the police.
Residents have expressed their shock and outrage at the occurrence and asked the police to see that justice is done.
The Assemblyman of the area, Cephas Authur, pleaded with the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to beef up security in Mankessim and the surrounding area adding that the bizarre incident is not the first murder case recorded in Mankessim.
“This is the fifth occurrence of this kind of incident this year. I’m requesting that the police take care of the Chief and Pastor,” he said.
The body of the victim has been placed in the mortuary at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital for preservation and autopsy.
Source: The Independent Ghana