KOFORIDUA JUJU PRIEST TO DIE BY HANGING

A Koforidua High Court Wednesday sentenced a 37-year-old fetish priest to death by hanging after he was found guilty of murdering a 30-year-old trader,, Rita Baah, at Okorase, near Koforidua.

The judgement came after a two-year legal battle in a case that saw most lawyers in Koforidua declining to defend the spiritualist in a bid not to incur the anger of residents of the regional capital where Rita was very popular.
Luckily, a lawyer from Nkawkaw, Mr Kin Hussein Ibn Alhassan, took up the case to defend the convict.
 Pronouncing the sentence, the presiding judge, Justice Simon Suurebareh, said, “You are to be taken back to the prison where you came from and you will be hanged with a rope till you are dead and your body will be buried at a place the Republic may order.”