GHANA – The Bolgatanga High Court has condemned a 38-year old customary mystic, Mbawona Tindana, for forfeiting his significant other and little girl to his deities.
Tindana, accused of two offenses of homicide under segment 46 of the Criminal Offenses Act of 1960, Act 29, argued not blameworthy. In any case, the Court directed by Mr. Charles Adjei Wilson, Regional Supervising High Court Judge, with consistent choice from a seven-part jury Tindana himself chose, viewed him to be blameworthy and condemned him to death. Indicting Senior State Attorney, Mrs Joyce Debrah said Tindana is a self-acclaimed customary mystic from Kulpeliga in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region and the spouse and father to the departed, 25-year Talata Abigail Kurug and two-year old Nyapoka Mbawona Tidana.
As indicated by Prosecution, Tindana had blamed his better half and little girl for being witches. Indictment said on June 27, 2019, at around 1630 hours, expired spouse who had left the house, was let by their child know that the Tindan who is additionally the ‘Tindana’ for the area had killed his sister and forfeited her to the divine beings. Indictment said the departed then, at that point, surged back to the house and saw the girl lying dead, in a pool of blood with the minds dispersed.
The Prosecution expressed out of shock, the departed imploded and the blamed jumped and hit her with a hatchet and a cleaver on the head, subsequently killing her notwithstanding their little girl. He additionally hit his child with the matchet yet the child figured out how to get away and was saved by youngsters who were playing football close to their home and later took him to the medical clinic for therapy. Indictment said an onlooker who saw the activity couldn’t save them because of hatchet and matchete Tindana was holding, so she concealed herself and later alarmed the police who came and captured the denounced individual. Police report said two departed were tracked down dead in a pool of blood and found a hatchet and a matchete stained with blood lying on the ground next to the departed. A clinical report likewise demonstrated that the departed were hit areas of strength for by making genuine head wounds that drove their demise.
