By Kwabena Adjei, a 26-year-old man, allegedly killed his girlfriend. He buried the body in a septic tank at Sunyani Magazine, near the Bono Regional Fire Command. The police have arrested him.
The suspect claimed he was being hunted by the ghost of his 19-year-old Nigerian girlfriend. She was only identified as Testimony. He later handed himself over to the police. He was in the company of his uncle.
Adjei was said to have elbowed his girlfriend, who fell unconscious and died instantly, after a misunderstanding ensued between them.
The Sunyani Municipal Operations officer of Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) is ADOll Ignatius Noekor. He confirmed the story to the Ghanaian Times.
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He noted that the suspect kept the body of the girlfriend in his room for three days. Then, he dumped it in a septic tank. The body was uncovered completely decomposed on Friday.
ADOll Noekor further revealed that the police informed the GNFS to help in retrieving the body from the septic tank. They accomplished this by flushing water down the facility, causing the body to float.
According to the Sunyani Municipal Operations officer of GNFS, the suspect was currently in police custody assisting investigations.
ADOII Noekor said this was the second time Testimony had visited the suspect before her death.
