A Burkinabe security man has been arrested and faces murder charges
after his employer, Madam Lucy Tawiah Peprah, was found dead at her
residence in Accra.
Madam Tawiah’s body was found repeatedly stabbed, with the suspect in the room with her with the murder tools lying all around.
The watchman, who worked for the woman, told police that he killed
the woman because a spiritualist told him she planned to use him for
rituals.
DailyGuide reports…
Madam Lucy Tawiah Peprah, 72-year-old educationist and former
headmistress of St Monica’s Training College, was reportedly butchered
by Osman Yakubu, her night security man, last Saturday.
The police apprehended Osman Yakubu with one Benjamin Semabia,
65-year-old driver of the deceased woman, to assist in investigations.
Two machetes and a pair of scissors allegedly used in perpetrating
the act were retrieved by the police from Yakubu at the time of his
arrest.
The Tesano District Police Commander, DSP Edward Tetteh, who briefed
DAILY GUIDE, said police on Saturday, November 12, 2016, received a
distress call at about 10pm that a watchman had butchered his madam at
Abelemkpe.
According to DSP Edward Tetteh, when the police got to the scene, the
suspect had barricaded himself in the room of the deceased person and
was with the dead body.
He said the police broke into it and arrested Osman Yakubu, who had armed himself with two machetes and a pair of scissors.
A close examination on the body revealed that Mrs Lucy Peprah was stabbed.
“There were deep cuts in her head, arms and face while she lay half n*ked in a pool of blood,” he posited.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Osman Yakubu had been working with the woman for the past one-and-a-half years.
On that fateful day, at about 9pm, Osman was said to have armed
himself with the afore-mentioned weapons and proceeded to the room of
his madam, who lived in a one-storey building apartment at Abelemkpe.
Michael Abiasa, the cook in the house, first spotted Osman Yakubu
with the machetes and when he questioned him (Yakubu), the suspect
allegedly attacked him and so he fell on the ground unconscious.
Raymond Achianku, a day security man around, reportedly heard of the
screaming and came out to save his colleague, but he was also assaulted
by Osman Yakubu.
Madam Lucy Tawiah Peprah, also director of Solid Foundation School
and philanthropist, had then returned from the bathroom and was
preparing to go to bed.
The suspect was said to have sneaked into her room and without any questions, butchered her mercilessly.
When the inherent dangers of issues like superstition and religion
are raised people tend to scoff because its such a deeply ingrained part
of themselves that they simply refuse to see anything wrong with those
topics.
This watchman claims he received a warning from a spiritualist,
probably some charlatan, that his madam was going to kill him. So he
went straight and butchered her first.
And there’s no reason this has to be limited to such traditional
practices – pastors tell people all the time that a certain ‘witch’ in
their family is after them, and it could lead to such a similar
disastrous end. When people can throw such accusations about without
evidence, irrational people might act on it.
