Butcher denies claims of woman selling human flesh
A butcher, Ali Bakari, has denied claims that the woman arrested at the Adabraka Market last Wednesday was selling human flesh.
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The 37-year-old butcher, who owns a shop at the Makola Market, is said to have given his statement when the police visited his shop.
As part of their investigations, the police went to the shop from where the woman claimed she had bought the meat.
On Wednesday, a woman (name withheld) was nearly lynched at the Adabraka Market in Accra after some traders had accused her of allegedly selling human flesh as meat.
The woman was found roaming the market with roast meat in an aluminium pan and some of the market women suspected it to be human flesh. They raised an alarm that led to her arrest.
Statement
The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mrs Effia Tenge, said the butcher, in his statement to the police, had claimed the woman had bought the meat, which he described as beef, from him about 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
She said the butcher claimed that although a kilo of the meat was sold at GH¢10, the woman bought two kilos after pleading with him to sell it at GH¢8 and that although he was reluctant, he agreed after they had bargained at length.
“We have a statement indicating that a butcher sold the meat to this woman from the Makola Market. He is Ali Bakari and he has given a written statement to that effect,” she said.
She said the woman’s husband also confirmed that his wife was only following a directive from her pastor whom she had consulted for a solution to the mysterious death of her two children.
Mrs Tenge said the meat suspected to be human flesh was currently undergoing laboratory test and added that the result of the test would be ready today.
The woman, according to Mrs Tenge, had since been released on police enquiry bail and was expected to report himself to the Adabraka Police daily.