On May 23, 2023, a shoemaker named Kwame Peter took his own life in his room at Ahafo Mim. His body was found hanging from a ceiling fan with a sponge days after his death. In a WhatsApp voice note he left behind, he accused his supposed wife and mother of his daughter of abandoning him for a wealthier lover.
However, his supposed wife, Amina, claims that she dated Peter for years before she found out that he was her family member. While speaking in an interview with Welcome to Ahafo, Amina said that they started dating on June 4, 2016. She wasn’t born in Ahafo Mim and never met Kwame Peter before. She learned that he had been living in Accra for 15 years before moving to Mim.
One day, while they were in the room together, Amina heard a knock on the door. Peter went out to meet the person, and in their conversation, Amina heard a voice that sounded like someone she knew. After their conversation, Peter came inside, and Amina asked him who the person was. He told her she was his aunty, but Amina was skeptical and asked for her name. He told her she was called Banfowah, but Amina didn’t pay attention to it.
Amina revealed that she got to know that Peter was her brother when she asked him some questions about the family house he came from. When he showed her his family house, she noticed that was the same place her father lived.
Amina claimed that although some family members disagreed with their decision to get married, she and Kwame Peter were so much in love with each other that they snubbed them until she got pregnant.
Amina also disclosed that Peter had threatened suicide on three occasions during their time together. She emphasized that she had always cared for him, ensuring his well-being and trying to meet his desires. To her, loyalty was essential, and she made efforts to understand his preferences, but Peter consistently returned with baseless accusations of infidelity, fueled by hearsay from friends and relatives. This fourth suicide attempt tragically resulted in his death.
