A 28-year-old woman has been found dead in her boyfriend’s room at Essikadu in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region.
The deceased has been identified as Maame Ekua, also known as Elizabeth Sackey.
She was a single mother of three and worked as an undertaker.
According to her mother, Ekua Tawiah Badu, her daughter told her on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, that she was travelling to Obuasi over the weekend to work on a body.
She left their home at New Takoradi on Thursday, and her mother believed she was in Obuasi.
However, on Saturday, November 7, the mother received a call about an emergency involving her daughter at the Essikadu Hospital.
She rushed to the hospital but did not find her daughter there. She was later directed to a house at Essikadu, where she was told her daughter had been found dead in a room.
Speaking on Connect FM’s Omanbapa Morning Show with Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, monitored by Angel Online, the grieving mother said she was shocked to learn that her daughter had not gone to Obuasi as she had told her.
She said her daughter had instead visited her boyfriend at Essikadu and died in his room.
Police have arrested the boyfriend as investigations continue to establish the circumstances surrounding her death.
