37-year-old
farmer Gideon Abotsi, popularly known by friends as Jarah, has brutally
murdered his three-year-old son after his wife allegedly denied him sex in
Kpeyiborme community, near Kpeve in the Peki District, of Ghana over this past
weekend. Oga Kingsley reports:
The suspect,
allegedly severed the head of his son, Sitsofe Abotsi, with a machete almost
beheading the boy except for a tiny piece of flesh holding the head to the
body. He committed the heinous crime on a piece of wood to protest his wife’s
decision not to have sex with him again. Abotsi is currently in the custody of
the Peki-Avetile Police, who are conducting investigations into the matter.
Meanwhile,
members of the farming community are still in a state of shock over the conduct
of the suspect and wondering what could have come over the man, whom some
described as reserved and calm and who lived peacefully with his wife, Sena
Ahiable, and their children.continue..
According to
some neighbours, they had lately witnessed a change in Abotsi’s behaviour, as
he easily picked quarrels with his wife. Sitsofe’s mother is said to be
devastated and inconsolable.
The Peki
District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mr Jonas
Agbevam, said Abotsi had confessed he had been under the influence of Indian
hemp that day.
Narrating
the incident to the Daily Graphic, Mr Agbevam disclosed that the suspect and
his wife had been married for 11 years and had four children. The boy he
allegedly murdered was the last of his children.
Mr Agbevam stated that the suspect and his
wife had for some time now, been having misunderstandings over the upkeep of
the children, with the woman alleged to have accused the man of being
irresponsible, for which reason she would not allow him to have sex with her to
prevent any unwanted pregnancy.
Following
that argument, the woman allegedly packed her belongings from her matrimonial
home and went to stay with her mother-in-law. Peeved by his wife’s behaviour,
Abotsi, last Friday, reportedly went to his mother’s house, picked the small
boy from his grandmother and took him to his house.
Taking
advantage of the fact that his neighbours had gone to farm, the suspect
allegedly put his son on a piece of wood and cut off his head with a machete.
The boy’s mother, who had been informed that her husband had come for the
child, subsequently went to the house, only to witness the gory scene.
According to the police, the woman shouted
for help and Abotsi, sensing danger, decided to run away. However, he was
chased by some youth of the town and arrested.
The police
were informed about the incident and they, consequently, went to the house to
arrest the suspect.
The body of
the boy, DSP Agbevam said, had since been deposited at the Peki Government
Hospital morgue.
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