{"id":266595,"date":"2024-12-17T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/17\/farmer-kills-wife-and-daughter-at-agona-bobikuma\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T02:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:12:28","slug":"farmer-kills-wife-and-daughter-at-agona-bobikuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/17\/farmer-kills-wife-and-daughter-at-agona-bobikuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer kills wife and daughter at\u00a0Agona\u00a0Bobikuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0 Upper Bobikuma Police are hunting for a\u00a048-year-old farmer who allegedly killed his wife and daughter at Esaase, a village near\u00a0Upper Bobikuma in the Agona West District of the Central Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police source said the suspect,\u00a0Stephen Alartey, was said to have used a cement block to hit both the wife and his daughter\u2019s heads till they gave up their ghosts and bolted away.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the police source, on Thursday, December 12, 2024,\u00a0Alartey allegedly asked the wife, Aku Motso, 37 years, and three children who were all staying with their grandmother at Agona Kwaman to come and stay with him at Esaase near Bobikuma.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police source hinted that on their way to the\u00a0 Esaase village, the suspect used a different route instead of the old bush path many people used to their various destinations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The source said on reaching the middle portion of the road, the suspect took a cement block and hit the wife and the daughter, Ophelia Alartey, who was only seven years old, killing them on the spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the source, a hunter who heard the noise and screaming appeared at the scene all of a sudden and the suspect asked the hunter to lead him to the police station to report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The source hinted that the hunter asked the suspect to take the lead for him to follow but Alartey refused and rather coerced the hunter to take the lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Later, Alerty was said to have found another cement block on the roadside and used it to hit the hunter on the head when he fell unconscious, Alartey used his cutlass to slash his head, leaving a deep cut, took the hunter\u2019s gun and bolted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, two of his children who saw the incident unfolded, ran back to the town to report the case and the police rushed to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The source said the suspect was at large and the Bobikuma Police is seeking information on his whereabouts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bodies of the two have been deposited at the Agona Swedru Municipal Government Hospital for autopsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 Upper Bobikuma Police are hunting for a\u00a048-year-old farmer who allegedly killed his wife and daughter at Esaase, a village near\u00a0Upper Bobikuma in the Agona West District of the Central Region.\u00a0 A police source said the suspect,\u00a0Stephen Alartey, was said to have used a cement block to hit both the wife and his daughter\u2019s heads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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