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| The suspects, Prince Kennedy (right)and Rita Kporgbe,Photo Anita Nyarko-Yirenkyi |
A couple who allegedly
murdered and buried their three months old baby girl at Agbogbloshie, a suburb
of Accra, have been arrested by the police at Glefe, near Dansoman, in Accra.
Prince Kennedy, 32,
self-employed and Rita Kporgbe, 40, unemployed were reported to have conspired
and buried the baby, Princess Naana Kennedy after her death.
The Dansoman District
Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Victor Kwakye, who
disclosed this to The Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday, said that the two were
in the custody of the police assisting in investigations.
He said on February 6,
a relative (name withheld) of Rita living in the same house with the couple at
Glefe noticed that the couple were living without the baby for some time now
and suspected foul play.
The Commander said, she
began making her enquiries and was hinted by a resident that on February 5, she
saw Kennedy going out in the evening with the baby wrapped in a piece of cloth
and tied with a rope.
DSP Kwakye said
according to her (resident) Kennedy returned home without the baby.
He said based on that
information the residents arrested the suspects and handed them over to the Dansoman
District Police.
The Commander said
during interrogation the couple told the police the baby became sick on
February 4, and she died and was buried in a bush at Agbogbloshie in Accra.
DSP Kwakye said that
personnel were dispatched to the burial site and it was realised that the soil
in the area had been disturbed.
The couple, he said
have since been put before an Accra magistrate court and the police are
awaiting a motion for the exhumation of the body.
Source: Ghana Times
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