Madam Mary Takpayur, a 32-year-old woman with three children, allegedly committed suicide at Ayimana, a suburb of Techiman municipality at the weekend.

She was alleged to have taken a poisonous concoction called “karat”.

Speaking to newsmen in Techiman, Mrs. Adwoa Mansah, a co-tenant, said the deceased had been complaining of the disappearance of her husband, Mr. Ngabalan Takpayur, an NDC activist at Kpandai in the Northern Region.

Madam Mansah added that, Madam Takpayur threatened to kill herself if her husband was not found, but neighbours advised her against this, “since she would put the future of her three children in jeopardy if she carried out the plan”.

She said hours before Madam Takpayur died, she displayed a framed picture of her husband by her door and sat weeping, unknown to her neighbours that she had already taken the poisonous “karat”.

The co-tenant said, Mr. Ngabalan allegedly disappeared about five years ago when his name was mentioned in police investigations on August 26, 2007 that he supplied locally manufactured pistols during a disturbance involving supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and NDC at Kpandai.

Police personnel detailed to the scene of the incident arrested six persons with locally manufactured pistols and during interrogations one of the suspects mentioned Mr. Ngabalan as the supplier of the weapons.**