The police have detained a cocoa farmer in Wiredukrom, a rural village in the Mpohor District of the Western Region, who is accused of killing his wife last Tuesday after an early-morning altercation.
At this time, police are holding Egya Ata, 38. Three of their kids, ages one to five, were there when the event, which is said to have occurred about six in the morning, occurred.
Egya Atta said that Ama Gifty, his brother’s wife, had actually assaulted him when he fled the scene of the crime with blood stains on his clothing. As the brother arrived on the scene, he saw the wife’s dead body lying on the ground.
The Nkosuohene of Wiredukron, Nana Promise Essilfie, revealed to Graphic Online’s Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu that despite having three children, the deceased’s husband and she had been living together but had not yet been legally wed.
Ama, a food seller, informed the family on Tuesday morning that she would be unable to make them breakfast since she had already been running late to the adjacent Kojokrom Market to acquire food items for her business.
At around 6:30 am, she walked outside to buy the kids’ porridge (koko).
A fight apparently broke out in their room when she returned with the oatmeal, and Ata reportedly would not let her go.
After reportedly killing the wife, according to Nana Essilfie of Graphic Online, Ata allegedly hurried to his brother’s home in a nearby neighborhood wearing a blood-stained shirt and said that the wife had assaulted him.
When the brother arrived at Ata’s home, he saw Ama’s lifeless corpse with her children sitting next to her, wailing and shouting out her name.
When the brother went back to confront Ata, he found that he had changed into one of the brothers’ shirts and fled home after burning his blood-stained shirt.
After some time, he came to the brother’s home in the evening and informed him that if he assisted him in escaping, he was willing to give him the management of his cocoa field.
The brother pretended to be interested, according to Nana Essilfie, and then snuck off to call the police.
