18-year-old Man Attempts To kill 4-yr old for ‘sika duro’

Daniel Kyei Baffour, has been arrested by the Amasaman District Police for attempted murder and abduction. The 18-year-old private security personnel, allegedly sent his four-year-old nephew to a Mallam to be sacrificed for money rituals. The arrest occurred
around 8.00 Wednesday night at a suburb in Accra. According to the police, one Mallam Bawa called to inform police that someone was attempting to slaughter a boy for sika duro. Sika duro is money obtained from rituals. A team of police patrol was immediately dispatched to the suburb, where they found Daniel
Kyei Baffour and his 4-year-old nephew and victim in the
shrine of the Mallam. When accosted, Daniel told the police he had come to the Mallam to help him get rich, and was arrested. Daniel Kyei Baffour confessed in his caution statement to the police that he was lured into the act by peer pressure. He said all his friends were rich and so he needed to do something to get to the same level. The junior high school (JHS) graduate said he got to know the Mallam through posters and billboards and decided to contact him. Daniel told TV3 that he offered to provide human being instead of a fowl as suggested by Mallam Bawa to ensure that his riches would be beyond bounds. According to the police, Daniel refused to lead them to his residence at Ofankor, insisting he did not want his relatives to know what he was going to do. It took the effort of the 4-year-old victim for the police to locate the Ofankor residence.