From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Sekondi
THE village of Borwuhumodin, near Asankragwua in the Western Region, last Thursday woke up to a horrifying scene of the remains of two labourers who had been set ablaze in their hut as a result of a farmland dispute.
The suspect, Bro. Tetteh, 35, drank poison few minutes before his arrest by the police and died on arrival at the hospital.
The labourers were fast asleep, when Tetteh, a settler farmer and a native of Ada, mistook them for their master, who is a contender in the dispute.
The deceased, Mohammed Tarri and Iddrisu Yussif, both migrants from the Northern Region and contracted as farm labourers, died at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Sekondi, on arrival and their remains have since been deposited at the hospital’s morgue pending autopsy.
When Tetteh was arrested, he was reported to have told the police, “You don’t have to waste time on me because I have drunk enough poison and I will soon die. I know I cannot win in the litigation. Therefore, I decided to set my other contender ablaze but mistakenly it was his labourers.”
“I decided to kill him by setting his hut ablaze in the night so that I could take over the farm and the rest of the land after his death, but I did not know that he is no longer sleeping in it,” Tetteh added.
A police source said the two had sustained severe burns and were unconscious before they were brought out of the fire and rushed to the Catholic Hospital but were later referred to the Regional Hospital at Sekondi, where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
The police source further stated that after the confession, Tetteh was rushed to the hospital but died at about 2:30 a.m last Wednesday.
Police investigations, however, continue.
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