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Deputy General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen has laid the blame at the doorstep of every authority and individuals in the country for the lynching of the 90-year-old Akua Dentah at Kafaba near Salaga in the Savanna Region.

According to him, the lynching which led to the death of the 90-year-old woman is shameful and wrong as men stood by and watched the defenseless old woman went through this horrific experience due to ancient custom and tradition.

Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Nana Obiri Boahen said that the blame should not be placed on only those at the scene of the incident, but leaders and politicians who did nothing against the establishment of the witch camps in the country.

“We are all guilty of what has happened…we have villages created by NGOs as witches’ camps. We did not see the need to abolish those camps. This means that we have accepted them into our system”, he accused.

“We always talk about NPP, NDC, Kotoko, and Hearts of Oak and other things and we still have witches’ camps in existence and who do you think are supposed to go there? Witches will go there; we should rather have dissolved the so-called witches’ camps in the first place...

“If in America, Black life matters, then in Ghana the likes of Akua Dentah’s lives matter”, he made the clarion call.

Nana Obiri Boahen wondered why it has to take the death of Akua Dentah before the country can realize how wrong it is to label someone a witch; alluding to the fact that there are many more similar incidents which have sadly gone unnoticed.

He added that politicians will take advantage of the election year to go to the witches’ camps to gift them items as they need their votes in the upcoming general elections.

“....the existence of witches’ camps is an insult to us as a nation. It should not end with Akua Dentah’s case. We should use Akua Dentah’s case to close down all the witches’ camps,” he fumed.

To him, common sense should have informed the powerful Chief Priestess who was able to identify the 90-year-old woman as a witch to deal with Akua Dentah spiritually since it is a matter of spirituality.

“These are the things that show that we are lagging behind as Africans. If the Chief Priestess claimed to be so powerful to fight witches, she should have fought Akua Dentah spiritually; this is common sense”, he stated.