Walewale: Dismembered body of 47-year-old trader found in bush

The dismembered body of Agnes Agyei, a 47-year-old trader from Kumasi has been found in a bush at Walewale in the Northern Region. According to ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Agnes Agyei, had travelled to Walewale to collect goods she had ordered from Mahamadu Issahaku, 27 and Alhassan Mohammed, 50 -- her agents.
“Upon realizing that the woman had a huge sum of money on her, the agents lured her into the bush, killed her and cut her body into pieces and left the body in the bush.” The suspects reported the incident to their father, Issifu who advised them not to tell anyone. Relatives of the deceased became alarmed when she failed to return home two weeks after she left. They traced her to Walewale.

When the two suspects who had been seen with the deceased before her disappearance were interrogated by the police, they said the woman had fallen ill and was receiving treatment at some certain village. Upon further interrogation, however, the suspects confessed that they had killed the woman cut her body into pieces and dumped them in the bush. They led the police to the location of the decomposed body and it was retrieved, ASP Tetteh said.