A 45-year-old man was allegedly butchered to death by a farmer for stealing a bunch of plantain on a farm at Densuano near Akwadum in Koforidua.
The farmer, Michael Koranteng, was said to have gone to his farm at about 8 a.m. last Monday and saw Yaw Larteh allegedly cutting the plantain with a machete.
Koranteng was reported to have asked Larteh to hand over the machete to him but Larteh allegedly attacked him and inflicted a wound on his left palm.
Koranteng, in a bid to defend himself, also used a machete to inflict multiple wounds on Larteh, killing him instantly on the farm.
Briefing the press on the incident at Koforidua, the Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command, Chief Inspector Joseph Tawiah, said at about 12.40 p.m on Monday, August 24, 2009, Koranteng went to the Eastern Regional Police Command to report that Larteh had stolen a bunch of plantains on his farm.
Koranteng was immediately arrested and escorted to his farm, where the police saw the body of Larteh with multiple wounds at almost every part of the body.
Koranteng was then taken back to the police headquarters where upon further investigations, he told the police that some residents of the area had often been stealing his farm produce and that any time he succeeded in arresting some of them, elders of the area often pleaded for their release.
Meanwhile, the body of the deceased has been deposited at the morgue of the Eastern Regional Hospital at Koforidua.
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