Police arrest Sumpini’s boss and 4 others for attacking a 50-year-old woman

Police arrest Sumpini’s boss and 4 others for attacking a 50-year-old woman

The Ghana Police Service arrested five people, including Sumpini’s chief, Haruna Jebuni, for their role in the attack on a 50-year-old woman accused of witchcraft in the Savannah region.

In a statement, the police said that the victim (name withheld) was attacked in her home with cutlasses and sticks on suspicion of being a witch by the quintet that includes the 58-year-old boss.

The other suspects are Zakaria Abdul Karim (30 years old), Shaibu Iddrisu (35 years old), Atta Alhassan (57 years old) and Salugu Isahaku (aka Orulanaa 45 years old).

The woman survived the attack and has been helped to seek medical attention while the suspects are in custody awaiting trial by the court.

“The police hereby warn that anyone who takes the law into their hands will be arrested and treated in accordance with the law,” police said in a statement Sunday.

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Attack

The attack reportedly took place after the Bugum fire festival on Saturday 29 August in Sumpini, in the West Gonja district of the Savanna region.

The victim was attacked by a group of men based on accusations that she is a witch.

She suffered injuries to her skull and legs and is admitted to West Gonja District Hospital.

Similar attack

The attack comes less than two months after another woman, Akua Denteh, 90, was lynched in Kafaba, in the same region.

The Savannah Regional Police Command has referred the file on Denteh’s alleged murder to the Attorney General’s Office (AG) for advice.

The action of the police is to pave the way for the detention proceedings to begin in the Bole District Magistrates Court on the next postponed date of September 8, 2020, after the court, chaired by Mr. Andrew Prince Cudjoe, would have placed seven people accused of murdering the woman in preventive custody when they appeared in court for the second time on Thursday, August 20, 2020.

The seven defendants are Sirina Mohammed, 40, also known as Alhajia, the alleged fortune teller who declared Ms. Denteh a witch, and Latifah Bumaye, 33, the lady who is said to have spanked Ms. Denteh , while accusing her of being responsible for the alleged lack of rain in the Kafaba community.

The rest are Haruna Aness, 34; Issifu Tanko, 35; Shaibu Murtala, 29 years old; Suleman Ali, 35, and Issifa Zakyibu, 32.

It is said that they invited a fortune teller to the Kafaba community to identify the witches and exorcise them.

The seven were provisionally charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder, respectively, but were released by the court when they reappeared before him last Thursday.

However, they were immediately re-arrested on court premises and charged with murder.