{"id":392000,"date":"2017-05-25T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/25\/traditional-priestess-grabbed-for-operating-brothel\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:47:25","slug":"traditional-priestess-grabbed-for-operating-brothel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/25\/traditional-priestess-grabbed-for-operating-brothel\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional priestess grabbed for operating brothel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A traditional priestess has been arrested at Barekese for allegedly operating a brothel. A quantity of used and unused condoms were retrieved from the suspect\u2019s 17-bedroom house by the police at the time of her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The police have also accused the suspect, Okomfuo Ama Serwa, alias Nana Ama Asuoabena Komfo, for illegally practising as a traditional medicine practitioner without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arrest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Briefing the media in Kumasi last Tuesday, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr Ken Yeboah, said the police received a complaint from the Regulatory Officer of the Traditional Medicine Practitioners Council in Kumasi that the suspect was operating without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He said the complainant also alleged that the suspect was recruiting young girls within and from outside her house to engage in illicit sex trade.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Based on the complaint, Mr Yeboah said, the police proceeded to the place and found a quantity of used and unused condoms in the house and a fake traditional medicine certificate.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, when the suspect was interrogated, she claimed that someone she identified as Christopher Owusu was the one who had issued her with the certificate.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, he said, Owusu was also arrested in his house at Asuofia and when his room was searched, the police found a quantity of capsules and plastic containers containing creams with the inscription Rebec Vanicure and Rebec Man Capsules, all of which the police suspected might be fake products.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yeboah said the two suspects had been released on police inquiry bail pending further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Suspected robber<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a related development, the District Police Command of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology last Monday arrested\u00a0 an alleged robber, Mallam Suleman, who the police claimed was a member of a gang of four armed robbers who had attacked and robbed some students at a hostel at Ayeduase on May 22, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mr Yeboah said Suleman was arrested by a patrol team which had responded to a distress call.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Suleman\u2019s accomplices, whose names were only given as Abass, Akwasi and Kelo, however, managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the police commander, a pistol, five BB cartridges, two Nokia mobile phones, a ladies\u2019 wristwatch, a radio speaker and GH\u00a252 were found when a search was conducted on the suspect on his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He said the suspect allegedly admitted to have robbed the students with his accomplices (now on the run).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He is currently in police custody assisting in investigations.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/komfocd.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Some packets of condoms found in some of the rooms<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/komfocdd.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t              <!-- new position --><br \/>\n          <!-- new position end -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traditional priestess has been arrested at Barekese for allegedly operating a brothel. 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