Source: Bretuoba Nana Kwame Marfo
The Akim Oda Number 9 Police are currently investigating an incident in which a girl and her mother were hospitalised after coming under a predatory knife attack.
Two unidentified knife-wielding young men intruded on a residence at Osofo Tawiah Akura near Ayeboafo and Wawase in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern Region of Ghana and butchered a fourteen-year-old girl and her mother.
According to the reports, the woman, 49-year-old Adwoa Obama, sells foodstuffs and provisions. A few days ago, the two boys went to borrow some items from the trader’s 14-year-old girl.
Two weeks later, the boys went to buy someone’s items and wanted to pay, but the seller did not get a change for them, so they returned to the girl, their creditor, and handed her some money to assist them with the change while still owing her.
Sensing that her debtors were unconcerned about settling their arrears, the girl cunningly took the money, deducted what was due her, and gave the boys less amount than the actual value presented to her.
Her action, although acceptable, infuriated the young men, who least expected the girl, backed by her mother, to reclaim money that was owed and should have been paid earlier, and resulted in a brawl.
The boys, still enraged, threatened to get back at the girl and her mum.
On Thursday night, March 21, 2024, the young men, dressed like bandits, broke into the room where the girl and her mother were sleeping and started attacking the girl.
After some time, they saw that the girl had suffered respiratory distress, so they turned on her mum and butchered her.
While the gangsters were still stabbing her mother, the girl regained consciousness and made a daring escape a deafening scream to draw neighbours’ attention, who invited some officers of Akim Oda Number 9 Police Station to the scene.
The attackers fled the crime scene before the police arrived. Investigations are in progress to identify and apprehend the suspects.
The victims have been admitted to Akim Oda Government Hospital for medical attention.
