A 38-year-old palm wine tapper, from Gomoa Afranse, has been arrested by the Axim Police for attempting to sell his 16-year-old son to a fetish priest, Nana Tanor Kwaw at Ayisakro near Axim in the Nzema East municipality of the Western region.
The palm wine tapper who gave his name to Nzema 96.5fm news as Kwabena, went to the shrine of the fetish priest around 7:15am that he wants to use his son for money ritual.
Upon realizing he cannot follow the rules of the ritual, he opted to sell the boy.
The fetish priest feigned interest and asked him to go and bring the boy.
As soon as Kwabena left, the priest drove to Axim police and reported the case.
The police then acted(dressed) as businessmen(buyers) and went with the priest to his shrine with a bag packed with papers to meet the suspect.
When they got there the man was already there with the son ready to be sold.
After few minutes of bargaining he charged 50billion cedis so the police handed over the bag to the man claiming to contain the said amount.
The man took the bag and when opening to count the money, the police grabbed him.
As soon as he was arrested he started shouting that people are killing him so people should come to his aid.
As the crowd gathered to save him the police then explained to them what the man wanted to do.
The case is currently before the Axim police station pending investigation.
