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General News on Thursday, April 11, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-04-11
Ebenezer Tei and Felix Okpanye sentenced to death
Two men who killed a former police officer and threw his body in Lake Volta at Old Marine, near Akosombo in 2007, were sentenced to death yesterday by a high court in Accra.
Ebenezer Tei, aka Rastaman, a bad priest, and Felix Okpanye, a farmer, claimed to have the power to double the money.
The famous Yevugah, a deceased herbalist, decapitated the former police officer, Emmanuel Appiah Kubi, and threw his body into the lake on March 14, 2007.
The famous Yevugah drowned as she threw Kubi's body into the lake.
The three took 4,000 GH ¢ in Kubi under the pretext of doubling it for him. By the time Kubi got his money back, they did not pay it back.
Kubi lobbied them for them to repay the money, but they lured him into Old Marine to talk to a goddess of the sea, "Maame Water," in order to double the money. money for him.
They asked him to recite some incantations, but Yevugah hit him with a machete and beheaded him.
They put the headless body in a canoe and moved into the middle of the lake to empty the body into the lake.
But the canoe capsized in the process and Yevugah, who could not swim, drowned, but Tei and Okpanye managed to swim up to safety.
Subsequently, the two convicts took Kubi's head to a Torgbui Atsu Havor at Adjena Donor, near Akosombo. The prosecution told Havor that Tavour had ordered Kubi's head buried behind his home, after which the three men went to the Akosombo police station to file a complaint for Yevugah's disappearance.
Tei escaped Burkina Faso but was later arrested.
During the investigations, the police found traces of blood near the lake and arrested Okpanye and Havor.
The police sought the services of divers from the Volta River Authority (VRA) to recover the two bodies of the river – one of them without a head.
Okpanye admitted to committing the crime with Yevugah and Tei and also mentioned Havor as an accomplice.
Tei subsequently admitted the offense after being arrested by the police.
Trial
The prosecution convened five witnesses to prove its charges in a high court in Accra presided over by judge Lawrence L. Mensah, a judge of the court of appeal sitting as an additional judge in the High Court.
The defendants, after the close of the proceedings, also opened their defense but did not call any witnesses.
At the end of the 12-year trial, a seven-member jury handed down a verdict of guilty and the presiding judge sentenced them to death.
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