“YOU will be taken back to the prison where you were brought from to be hanged until you are dead, after which the Head of State will decide where your body will be buried. May your soul rest in peace.”
These were the final words of the Koforidua High Court judge, Mr Justice G. S. Suurbaareh, when he sentenced a 60-year-old farmer, Malaho Agbavitor, who had been found guilty by a seven-member jury for murdering his landlord, Abubakari Sadick, at Anyinam in the Eastern Region.
Agbavitor was whisked away in handcuffs to the prison, where he had already spent the past three years on remand.
The sentence came after a State Attorney, Ms Akpene Motey, who was prosecuting, had told the court that the convict “intentionally killed the landlord and ran to his village, Ave Dakpa, near Akatsi in the Volta Region, until he was arrested on July 7, 2007”.
According to the facts of the case, the convict, a Togolese national, in September 2006 hired a parcel of land belonging to the deceased for GHҐ80 to cultivate maize.
However, in January 2007 when the maize matured and was ready for harvesting, the deceased landlord approached the convict to have the farm produce shared between the two but the convict disagreed, resulting in a misunderstanding between them.
Later on that fateful day, the landlord went to the convict’s farm but never returned home until he was found dead, with machete wounds at the back of his neck, the following day.
Ms Motey said on the same day, the convict fled to his home town, Ave Dakpa, where he spent six months until he was arrested on July 7, 2007.
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