Meduma arson case: Mamponteng District Court remands key suspect
A 35-year-old man , Kwaku Agyeman , was on Wednesday March 31, 2021 remanded three weeks into police custody by the Mamponteng District Court , over the alleged murder of his 11 year old step son Prince Kyeremateng.
Kwaku Agyeman , who is a Trotro driver and resides in Medoma in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region , was charged with three counts including murder, Arson and causing injury.
The court presided over by His Lordship Thomas Boadi Soyori however, did not take his plea.
Meanwhile the suspect Kwaku Agyeman who appeared in court with both leg bandaged admitted committing the crime in the presence of court.
He however pleaded to the court to release him on bail for him to treat himself.
Magistrate Thomas Boadi Soyori however refused him the bail and ordered the investigator in charge of the case to officially record the confession of the suspect in front of and independent person and add to the evidence they have.
The case has been , adjourned until April 21, 2021 after police said they would need three weeks to complete investigations.
Background
Kwaku Agyeman was on March 16, 2021 arrested by police at Mamponteng for allegedly setting his girlfriend and three children ablaze at Meduma in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
The situation lead to the death of one person with three others sustaining severe injuries.
Mr Agyeman, was said to have set himself ablaze after the incident but was rescued and sent to hospital by residents in the area.
Four besrooms and several properties amounting to thousands of Ghana Cedis were burnt to ashes in the process.
The victim’s woes
Victims of an arson attack at Meduma in the Ashanti Region have had to go without food to cater for their medical bills.
Patience Kwarteng, whose fiancé allegedly set their home on fire, suffered burns together with two of her children. Her first child died in the fire.
She has been discharged from the hospital together with one of her children. But her other child who suffered severe burns is under close medical monitoring.
Her 10-year-old son, a twin, Prince Osei was burnt to death in the fire. The boys was buried a week after the incident.
Akwasi Agyemang, the fiancé of Patience allegedly set ablaze his daughter and two other maternal siblings ablaze after a squabble.
Patience spent almost two weeks in the hospital. Her legs are bandaged rendering her unable to walk.
She is still in pain. But her major worry is the rising cost of hospital bills.
“I feel pains in my legs. The doctor keeps prescribing drugs which we struggle to buy. The surviving twin is still at the hospital, my mother spends about three hundred cedis on her drugs alone every two days. The last girl is well. She wasn’t burnt as the two of us. We now sacrifice food for ourselves for her medical bills,” she said.
The surviving twin daughter who is still at the hospital, now anaemic as the family struggles to foot the bills.
Grandmother of the ten-year-old is burdened as she struggles to take care of the family.
Patience regrets listening to the advice of people to take in her abusive lover.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Jacob Agyenim Boateng
