The Wulomo (Fetish priest) of La Akotianaa in Accra, Nii Sowatey Sowah, has been granted police inquiry bail after being arrested for allegedly shooting three people in the area and striking a fourth person with a pestle.
Police sources said the incident occurred at La on Sunday, December 2, 2007, when the four victims attempted to remove a wooden structure which the Wulomo had erected in front of the Akotianaa Family Shrine.
That action, which was said to have been at the instance of the elders of the Akotianaa We, was met with fierce resistance from the Wulomo, who is known in private life as Samuel Sowah. During the confrontation, the Wulomo was said to have reached for his gun, with which he shot and injured three of the victims.
The three who sustained gunshot wounds were identified as Emmanuel Kotey, alias Mohammadu, Okpoti Ahene and Benjamin Addie.
The suspect was said to have struck the fourth victim, a carpenter whose name was only given as Narh, with a pestle.
A medical report from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital showed that Emmanuel Kotey, who suffered the severest injury, was shot at his back and an X-ray indicated that 33 pellets were lodged in him, out of which five had been removed, with the rest yet to be removed.
Okpoti and Benjamin were shot in their hands and buttocks, respectively.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gyebi of the La District Police said the police were still investigating the circumstances that led to the bloody event.
DSP Gyebi told the Daily Graphic the police were still building the docket on the case and he was hopeful that the case would go to court by next week.
Narrating what happened during the shooting incident, three members of the Akotianaa We, Mr Ayi Ashong, the Treasurer, Mr Nicholas Sowah Komey, the Secretary, and Mr John Sowatey Sowah, the Head of the Akotianaa We, said for some time now the actions of the Wulomo had not been in conformity with the traditions of the Akotianaa Family and, therefore, the family decided to take action against him.
They said it all began on Sunday, November 11, 2007 when a report reached the elders of the Akotianaa We that the Wulomo was attaching an unauthorised structure to the shrine.
Source: Daily Graphic
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