... for refusing marriage
An 18-year-old girl, Akosua Agyeiwaa, is yet to come to terms with herself following the ordeal she went through at the hands of her father and brother for refusing to be given out in marriage.

Agyeiwaa was allegedly subjected to severe beating by her father and two brothers at Oyira, a farming community near Agona, where they lived.

She ran away and sought refuge in the house of the town's unit committee chairman.

The two brothers, under the instruction of their father, chased her there, beat her up again and pushed her into a pot of hot water which was on fire in the house.

Briefing the Times here, Chief Inspector Ibrahim Awudu Gariba, Agona police station officer, said the Unit Committee chairman, Yaw; reported the matter to the police.

According to Chief Inspector Gariba, Agyeiwa had persistently refused to accept the forced marriage arranged by her father and that had resulted in some friction between her, the father and brothers.

On March 28, he said a snake bit the wife of one of the brothers in their house and all the family members concluded that it was bad luck brought on the household by Agyeiwaa’s refusal.

That is when they pounced on her and beat her up.

Shaibu and Razak Awinsore, the brothers, escaped when the police got there but their father, Abupbila Awinsore, was arrested.