The Chief of Kafaba in the East Gonja municipality in the Savannah Region, Kafabawura Seidu Yahaya, has been arrested by the Regional Police Command in connection with the lynching of a 90-year-old woman who was accused of being a witch.
The police have also mounted an intensive search for 13 others who are on the run.
According to the Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr Enoch Adutwum Bediako, the statement of the Kafabawura had been taken and was in custody to be arraigned today.
He said the chief would be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
The arrest of the chief follows the sending of homicide experts from the Police Headquarters in Accra to the Savannah Region on the orders of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Buanuh, to arrest the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Monday condemned the lynching of Madam Akua Denteh, the 90-year-old woman who was accused of being a witch, describing it as barbaric and unfortunate.
The President called on the police to look for the perpetrators and bring them to book, adding that never again should such a dastardly act happen in the country.
