Former Pentecost Chairman Calls For Holistic Debate On Closure Of Witches Camps
Former Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Prof. Opoku Onyinah has called for a holistic national debate on the closure of witches camp across the country.
He says the government should begin to put measures in place to have a proper and suitable abode for these people branded as witches and wizards who have been dumped in these camps.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, he said what happened in the Savannah Region should not happen again.
"That can only be achieved if the nation decides to have a discussion on how to disband these camps and also have a proper orientation in these communities for people who think these alleged witches and wizards are the cause of their problems," he said.
He also partly blamed the belief of these acts of witches and wizards on some acclaimed men of God who he believes are deceiving a section of the public.
The son of a 90-year-old woman, Mariama Akua Denteh lynched for being a ‘witch,’ at Kafaba in East Gonja has called on the police to with immediate effect bring the killers of his mother to book.
The late madam Denteh was lynched because a soothsayer, who had been invited to Kafaba to identify witches in the town, said she was one.
President Akufo-Addo's Call
President Nana Akufo-Addo has directed the Police to as a matter of urgency solve the gruesome murder of Madam Akua Denteh, a frail 90-year-old woman, accused of practicing witchcraft.
He emphasized the urgent need for the Police to immediately bring to book perpetrators of the heinous act to ensure that justice was swiftly served.
President Akufo-Addo made the order when he inaugurated the Yapei Water System on Monday to extend potable water to 18,149 residents in five communities in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region.
President Akufo-Addo expressed revulsion at the killing of the 90-year-old woman, saying "it should not happen again".
Madam Akua Denteh, was on Thursday beaten to death at Kafaba, a farming community in the Salaga South Constituency by some local residents who accused her of being a witch and the source of certain strange happenings in the area including the slow pace of the town's development.
The incident was captured on video and had since gone viral on social media.
The Inspector-General Police had dispatched a team of crack homicide personnel to solve the murder.
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