New Twist In Mankessim Murder As Pastor Did The Unthinkable

Georgina Asor Botchwey, a 25-year-old nursing student, was found dead and decomposed in Mankessim in the Central Region. New information that has come to light since then suggests that she was sold to the chief for a possible money ritual.

The new twist is that Georgina left her home in Yeji in the Bono East Region to go to an interview at the Ankarful Nursing Training College in Cape Coast, but she ended up in the hands of the pastor, who is thought to be her sister's fiance.

The family found out that the supposed pastor at the center of the case, Michael Darko Amponsah, also known as Osofo Kofi, picked her up after the interview. Michael Darko Amponsah was arrested by the police in connection with the murder.

Armed with this important information, Joseph Dade, the late Georgina's uncle, said that his brother, a soldier, was quickly contacted to start looking into where his sister had gone.

He said that the soldier followed the suspect to a village in the Central Region, where he was hiding, and arrested him so that he could be questioned.

He said that the pastor admitted to the crime during the interrogations and said that Georgina had been sold to a chief in the Central Region.

"After she went missing, our "brother-in-law" was arrested, and he said that she had been sold to Nana Clark, a chief in the Central Region, but when they got there, she had already been killed," the uncle said.

Interesting how they link the mysterious missing daughter to the brother-in-law before he confessed. The mother of the deceased, Grace Andoh, said that the family consulted a spiritualist, a Kumasi-based pastor, who told them that the brother-in-law, who had picked up the student nurse, was involved in the daughter's disappearance, but that the family didn't believe him until he admitted to the crime.

"After my daughter went missing, a pastor in Kumasi told me that my older daughter's fiancé was the one who took her away. "At first, we didn't want to believe it, but when he was arrested and admitted to it, we had to," the mother said, adding that the family was surprised by the sudden turn of events because the suspect was going to be their son-in-law.

"Everyone in the family is shocked, and we can't believe that our future son-in-law could do something like this to us. We didn't think he would be behind this."

The suspects were thought to have taken the student nurse before she was killed, because the student's mother said that one of the suspects had asked the family for GHC15,000 to do some rituals to help find her, but the family refused to pay.

She talked about some of the strange things the son-in-law-to-be had done and said that the suspect had come to the family's house in Yeji two years ago to perform the knocking ceremony. At the time, he had lost GHC30,000 from his bag in the house.

The Cape Coast District Court II sent the two suspects back to jail on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
Michael Darko, aka Nana 1, who calls himself a pastor, and Christopher Ekow Clarke, aka Nana Crack, who is the Tufuhene of Ekumfi Akwakrom, will have to go back to court on October 4, 2022, so that the prosecution can do more research.

The prosecution charged them with two crimes: plotting to commit murder and actually killing someone, which is against section 46 of the Criminal Offenses Act 1960, Act 29.

But when they went to court, their pleas were not taken into account.

On September 19, 2022, the police arrested the two suspects in connection with the murder of the 25-year-old nursing trainee at Mankessim. This was done through a targeted special intelligence investigation.

The police found the two hiding places and then arrested them there. Both of them have said that they killed the victim for money rituals.

Georgina Asor Botchwey was reported missing on September 10, 2022, after she left home for a job interview and never came back. No one could reach her or find her, no matter what they tried.

Reports say that while being questioned by police, suspect Michael Darko, who is said to be the boyfriend of the dead person's older sister and was last seen with her, led police to where her body had been buried.

Source: dailyguidenetwork