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Full Gallons Of Suspected Human Blood Found Here
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Without prior warning, you could mistake the facility for some kind of health facility which gives life and healing to those needing Medicare., and not a shrine
On the contrary, it is a shrine and may actually be a slaughter slab, where fetish practices go on regularly and human blood harvested.
This much has been established by the police which found gallons filled with suspected human blood at the shrine discovered in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
A report monitored from Ghanaweb said a special police team raided the place last Thursday and exhumed some remains.
Two fetish priests who have been arrested in connection with the heinous crimes have reportedly confessed killing two people and burying them at the shrine.
The report also said the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service holding a news conference where it detailed the circumstances under which at least two people were killed by the suspects.
incidentally, there was no kind of warning of what lay ahead.’
CID Boss DCOP Ken Yeboah officially mentioned the names of the fetish priests as Christian Lawoe Gameli aka Power-One, 36, and Famous Adukonu aka Scorpion, 37, both from Afife in the Volta Region.
He said they were operating a shrine called ‘Power 1 Herbal & Spiritual Centre’ located at Adu Kwadwo and Kofi Nyarko villages near Maame Dede Junction on the Nsawam to Adeiso road in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region.
The suspects allegedly confessed to the murder of a 64-year-old ex-soldier, Edward Quartey Papafio, a Biochemist Consultant from Kasoa in the Central Region and also killed one Kwashie Zormelo, a mason whose service was engaged by the fetish priests.
According to the CID, Zormelo also resided at Kasoa.
He said the two fetish priests have been remanded in police custody by a court in Accra and investigation is ongoing.
The CID boss said that the fetish priests were armed because the police retrieved two pump action guns, a single barrel gun together with 11 packets full of cartridges from Christian Lawoe’s room.
“On April 29, 2020 both suspects admitted having interacted with the missing person, Edward Quartey Papafio, for some time, but he was later shot and killed on January 15, 2020 at their shrine,” he added.
The CID boss said, “The suspects reiterated that the first body was buried at a particular spot within the shrine and led the police to the scene,” adding “the area was secured for an exhumation order to be granted by the court.”
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“On April 30, 2020, the police, including a pathologist, personnel of the crime scene management unit, forensic science laboratory, Drone and CID operation unit went to Maame Dede and executed the exhumation order granted by the court,” he stated.
DCOP Yeboah said, “On arrival, the two suspects led the police to the scene behind the house which has been walled with a small entry but no exit where the two identified the deceased’s grave,” adding “the pathologist retrieved a decomposed body from the grave.”
“A second decomposed body whose name suspect Christian Gamele Lawoe aka Power gave as Kwashie Zormelo from Kasoa was also retrieved from another grave,” he said.
He indicated that the team later exhumed human parts, hairs, attachments, beads suspected to be that of a woman and other bones from a third grave all within the same perimeter.
“The suspects, therefore, lured the victim into the shrine and succeeded in collecting about GH¢10,000 from him under the pretext that they were going to fortify him spiritually to enable his company to flourish,” he added.