Story by Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu
A 55-year-old female lunatic who is undergoing treatment at the Twelve Apostles Prayer Camp at Anwia in the Nzema East District of the Western Region has butchered an eight-year-old daughter of the camp owner.
The woman, Nyankuamoah Ewuraba, was said to have been chained to a tree as part of the healing process and in the night, while other inmates and camp officials had gone to bed, she freed herself from the chains, took a machete from the compound, went on rampage and butchered the girl who was then asleep.
The victim was identified as Comfort Prah, the daughter of Obaa Yaa, known at the camp as Osofo Maame, who is in charge of the Twelve Apostles Church.
Currently, about five lunatics who are chained in the open, day and night, at the camp because of their alleged violent behaviour are awaiting their healing through Osofo Maame’s fasting and prayers.
The Axim District Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Mr Ohene Gyan, told the Daily Graphic that on the night of July 22, 2008, residents of Anwia, a community near Teleku-Bokazo, heard cries for help from the room where the late Comfort was sleeping.
According to the district commander, residents who responded to the distress call found Comfort lying motionless with deep cuts on her neck and spinal cord and rushed her to the Ekwei Hospital, where she died.
He said the police had arrested the mad woman and kept her at the police station at Esiama, while the body of Comfort had been deposited at the Axim Government Hospital.
The district commander used the opportunity to remind the public to send their mentally ill relations to specially trained professionals for treatment.
He said “there are psychiatric homes with specialists; therefore, if anything, our unfortunate brothers and sisters should be sent to the specialists, while we also support them with prayers instead of keeping them in chains at prayer camps”.
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