Dompa, a farming community in the Atebubu-Amantin District in the Brong Ahafo Region, was thrown into a state of mourning when the headless body of Kwame Amoah, 12, who was beheaded for ritual purposes at Techiman last Friday afternoon, was found in a bush on the outskirts of the community. The decomposed body, which had been covered with leaves, was found by a police investigation team, led by the Kintampo Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Edmund Owusu Boampong. But it was so decomposed that the team could not convey it. Rather, it asked the elders and opinion leaders of the community to assist the bereaved family to bury it. The police team was accompanied by some elders and opinion leaders of the community to the location where the body had been buried. The headless body was found when Sumalia Yahaya, 32, who is alleged to have beheaded the boy for ritual purposes to become rich (popularly called “Sakawa”, “Sika Aduro”), led the Police investigation team to the place where he buried it. The Police also arrested one of the two accomplices mentioned by the suspect, Namitor Koula, 45, while the other accomplice, Kwadwo Fosu, is still at large. The Police, after discovering the body also held an identification parade, during which some of the people of the community identified Yahaya. The residents, who said the suspect has gone to the community to work as a farm labourer and had been seen in the company of the boy on that fateful Thursday, had wanted to mete out instant justice to Yahaya, but they were prevented from doing so when the Police hid him in their vehicle. The parents of the beheaded boy, Dabilla Nyame and Ama Nyame Dagarti, wept uncontrollably when the body of their son was discovered and they were so traumatised by the incident that they could hardly utter a word. Superintendent Boampong told the Daily Graphic that the Police had launched a manhunt for Fosu. He said now that the body had been found the suspect and his other accomplice would be arraigned on a provisional charge of murder. Yahaya was arrested by the Police for allegedly beheading the boy for ritual purposes. According to the police, he was arrested with the boy's head at the residence of a spiritualist in Techiman where he had gone to present the head for rituals last Friday afternoon. The Police were said to have been alerted by the spiritualist, who had been contacted by the suspect for the rituals. Source: Daily Graphic