Residents of Tindonmolgo, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, are now living in fear after a decapitated head of a young man was found in an uncompleted building on Friday, August 8, 2014, wrapped in a tattered white sack. The head was at the decomposing state when it was found.
The Bolgatanga Municipal Police Command upon receiving the information hurried to the scene and conveyed the head to the Regional Hospital Morgue for autopsy. The female owner of the compound house was subsequently arrested to help the police in their investigations into the matter. Though many residents besieged the scene to catch a glimpse of the human head upon hearing the gory news, some of them could not get closer due the offensive stench that greeted them from the rotting head.
The police on Saturday returned to the scene and exhumed other parts of the body such as the feet, scrotum and penis in separate rooms. Other items found included chain padlock, wing of a bird and pair of slippers. Some items were also burnt in the middle of the yard that looked like the attire of the deceased. The Upper East Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Police Service, ASP Thomas Agbanyo, told The Chronicle that the incident remains a mystery to the Police.
According to him, this was the first time such an incident was reported to the Police in Bolgatanga and said the man could have been murdered somewhere and the body brought to the scene. The owner of the house whose name the Police have withheld is still in Police custody and expected to make her first appearance soon. When asked what charged have been pressed against her, ASP Agbanyo said that will be done on Monday. Even before the Police commence their investigations into the killing, fear-gripping residents have concluded that it was a ritual killing.
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