Dunkwa-on-Offin (C/R) Jan. 21-gna- A 35-year old unemployed, has poisoned and killed his wife at Dunkwa-on-Offin.

Akwasi Ankama, a former employee of Ashanti Goldfields is said to have killed the wife following her decision to divorce him. Narrating the incident to Ghana News Agency, the Dunkwa-on-Offin Municipal Police Commander, ASP Samuel Anderson Buabeng said a few months ago the wife, Nancy Nkwantabisa also known as Yaa left her marital home to stay with her aunt, madam Victoria Amofa Appiah due to maltreatment meted out to her by the husband. All attempts by Ankama to get Yaa back home proved futile. On January 14 this year Ankama went to Yaa's residence when her Auntie had left for work.

Ankama asked Yaa to choose between two options; either she allows him to have sex with her or he kills her. Following the deceased's refusal to grant his request, Ankama strangled her till she became unconscious. Before she died Yaa told her Auntie that she fought Ankama and in the process she was overpowered and fell unconscious when he had opportunity to 'sleep' with her after which he forced a bottle of acid down her throat and poured the rest into her private part. After the act Ankama drank some alcoholic beverages from a refrigerator in the house and ran away.

Yaa was rushed to the Dunkwa-on-Offin Government Hospital where she died six days later last Sunday. Meanwhile the body has been deposited at the same hospital mortuary pending autopsy.