{"id":1208872,"date":"2022-09-22T07:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/mankessim-chief-and-pastor-arrested-in-suspected-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T07:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:33:19","slug":"mankessim-chief-and-pastor-arrested-in-suspected-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/mankessim-chief-and-pastor-arrested-in-suspected-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mankessim: Chief and pastor arrested in suspected murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/57796D44-7109-46CF-B5EE-E945AE086576.jpeg\" alt=\"Mankessim: Chief and pastor arrested in suspected murder case\" class=\" bd-imagestyles-16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nMankessim: Chief and pastor arrested in suspected murder case <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Two people, the Tufohen of Ekumfi Akwakrom and a self-styled pastor have been arrested in connection with the death and secret burial of a lady\u00a0at Mankessim in the Central Region.<\/h2>\n<p>The chief, Nana Oye and the pastor are currently in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the lady in her mid twenties was exhumed Tuesday (September 20, 2022) in an uncompleted building at Esikafoambatem at Edumadze, a suburb of Mankessim.<\/p>\n<p>Identified as Georgina Asor-Botchwey, she was said to have gone missing last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This was after she travelled from Yeji to Cape Coast with the intention of attending an admission interview\u00a0at a nursing school in at Cape Coast.<\/p>\n<p>It was the pastor,\u00a0<span>who reportedly after his arrest in connection with the case, led police to the spot where she was buried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhumation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police exhumed the body in an uncompleted building.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the deceased has since been deposited at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital\u00a0for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>The assemblyman for the area, Alex Appiah said he had information that police was in his area to exhume a body from an uncompleted building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that the body of a lady was exhumed from my area yesterday by the police,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information gathered by Graphic Online indicates that the pastor had sent the deceased who had come for a visit to a drinking spot owned by Nana Oye also known as Nana Crack to buy her a drink.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source\u00a0after the drink, <span>Georgina\u00a0<\/span>was taken to one of the rooms near the pub also owned by Nana Oye to rest there since she looked tipsy.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor is said to have confessed\u00a0to\u00a0the police after which he led the police to the place where the body was buried.<\/p>\n<p>The body was exhumed from the chief\u2019s house where her bag, shoes, and other belongings were also found.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has thrown the residents into a state of shock and fear.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"69b069b45affc0aa89540b37-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"69b069b45affc0aa89540b37-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankessim: Chief and pastor arrested in suspected murder case Two people, the Tufohen of Ekumfi Akwakrom and a self-styled pastor have been arrested in connection with the death and secret burial of a lady\u00a0at Mankessim in the Central Region. The chief, Nana Oye and the pastor are currently in police custody. 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