Twifo Praso SHS students beat a spiritualist to death after being accused of phone theft

Two students have been arrested by the police for mobilising their colleagues to lynch a spiritualist who had accused one of them of stealing a mobile phone.

The incident happened at Twifo Praso in the Central Region.

The two students are from the Twifo Praso Senior High School.

They are in police custody for allegedly mobilising their gang to lynch the spiritualist, who has been identified as Abdul Latif.

Abdul Latif, working as a spiritualist is said to have revealed and accused one of them of stealing a mobile phone, which belonged to a junior student.

The junior student’s phone had gone missing and the students reportedly sought the intervention of the spiritualist to help them identify who stole the phone.

When the spiritualist, Abdul Latif accused one of the students as being the one behind the stolen phone, he reportedly went and mobilised his gang numbering about 10 who in turn ambushed and attacked Abdul Latif and subjected him to severe beatings until he died.

The incident happened on Wednesday [August 21, 2024] at about 8pm.

They then dragged his body into a bush and covered it with weeds.

The police recovered the body and deposited it at the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.

Graphic Online’s Central Regional correspondent, Shirley Asiedu Addo reports that the incident sparked outrage among some youth in Twifo Praso, who planned to storm the school campus for revenge.

But a timely intervention by the police prevented violence.

It took reinforcement teams from the Central North Regional Police Command to maintain order and ensure peace in the area.

The father of the deceased, Yaw Nkrumah said after the phone incident, his son had been attacked twice by some students of the school but he was able to face the students and left unharmed on both occasions.

He said the one that led to his death was the third time he had come under attack from the students.