The Cape Coast District Court II has remanded the two suspects in the Mankessim murder suspected into Police Custody.
The two will reappear before the Court on 4th October 2022.
22-year-old nurse trainee, Ms. Georgina Asor Botchwey, was killed and buried inside a traditional leader’s kitchen at Mankessim.
The two, Michael Darko and Nana Clark Onyaa were arrested for allegedly killing 22-year old Georgina Asor Botchwey.
During Police interrogation, suspect Michael Darko, who is the alleged boyfriend of the senior sister of the deceased victim and was last seen with the her, led Police to the location where they had buried her after the murder.
The accomplice, Tufuhene of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Onyaa, was nowhere to be found after he had information that his counterpart, a pastor, had been arrested.
He was, however, arrested at his girlfriend’s house at Ekumfi Akwakrom Hilltop.
The body has since been exhumed and deposited at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.
Mother gives “chilling” account of daughter’s murder
The mother of the murdered lady who went for a nursing training interview at Ankaful Nursing Training in the Central Region, Maame Akua Anowa, has narrated how her daughter, 22-year-old Asor, was murdered.
22-year-old nurse trainee, Ms. Georgina Asor Botchwey, was killed and buried inside a traditional leader’s kitchen at Mankessim.
The victim was allegedly kidnapped by the pastor after she had gone for an interview at the Ankaful Nursing Training College.
The two suspects, Michael Darko and Nana Clark Onyaa, who allegedly murdered Georgina Asor Botchwey, have been remanded by the Cape Coast District Court into Police Custody.
The Tufuhene of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Clark Onyaa, who was nowhere to be found after he had information that his accomplice, a pastor, had been arrested, was also apprehended at his girlfriend’s house at Ekumfi Akwakrom Hilltop.
Maame Akua Anowa, who spoke to host of Atinka AM Drive Kaakyire Ofori Ayim narrated that her daughter left Yeji in the Bono East Region in Ghana for the Ankaful Nursing Training in the Central Region in pursuit of a nursing education.
She revealed that after days of not hearing from her daughter, she alerted her eldest son, who is a military officer based in Takoradi.
Maame Akua Anowa added that the family resorted to a Facebook post after all efforts to reach the deceased by phone proved futile.
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She told Kaakyire Ofori Ayim that it took a guy from Yeji who was also at the interview to remind the family that Asor had informed him that her sister’s boyfriend was picking her up after the interview.
“Asor is a lively and bubbly person, and so when the guy saw the posts on Facebook announcing that Asor was missing, he called his mom to tell her that Asor had informed him that her sister’s boyfriend was picking her up after the interview. That was when my son tracked the pastor and apprehended him at a drinking spot. “He confessed on the spot,” Maame Akua Anowa told Kaakyire Ofori Ayim.
She confirmed that Nana Onyaa and the pastor, who doubles as the boyfriend of the murdered student’s sister, first kidnapped the victim, raped her and demanded GHS15,000 as ransom from her family.
A statement from the police said the chief and the pastor killed the lady and buried her in the chief’s kitchen after the family failed to pay the amount.
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