A 60-year-old herbalist in the Ashanti Region is being dragged to court for his role in a pregnancy termination that claimed the life of a married woman. The herbalist, Mohammed Manu, who is in police custody pending trial, reportedly gave concoctions and inserting pills, to the 24-year old Yaa Frimpomaa. The victim was rushed to a clinic at Bekwai and later transferred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where she died. Inspector Mohammed Tanko of the Police Public Affairs Unit says the suspect would be put before court on completion of investigation. Inspector Tanko told Kumasi-based Luv FM’s Samson Lardy Ayenini that the victim confessed to taking the prescription from the herbalist shortly before she passed away. The victim’s husband, who the police say was not party to the crime, only realised his wife had had an abortion after she fell seriously ill and demanded to know what was happening to her. He also has no idea why his wife terminated the pregnancy because they lived happily. Meanwhile an Assembly Member for the Kotokuom electoral area in the Ashanti Region is in police grips for allegedly raping a 17-year-old apprentice and subsequently procuring abortion for her illegally. 46-year-old Bright Owusu Asare is said to have forcibly had sex with the victim on a number of occasions. Once she got pregnant the assemblyman allegedly got a doctor to abort the fetus under the pretext of conducting a test to register her for the National Health Insurance Scheme.