The village of Nkawanda Number 2, a settlement near Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly of the Eastern Region was thrown into a state of fear and panic yesterday when Robert Kudzo Aziadujor, 22, started screaming around 11:30pm for help to remove a ring which started tightening his finger two hours after wearing.

According to Kudzo Aziadujor who spoke to the Daily Heritage over the weekend, on that fateful day, he decided to go and sleep with Kofi Asiedu, his barber friend and the owner of the ring.

Mr. Aziadujor added that after entering the room, “I spotted a nice and shining ring on the centre table so I quickly took it, but Asiedu persistently warned me not to wear it, saying it could not be used by someone else apart from him.”

This brought some struggle between Aziadujor and Asiedu who tried to take back the ring from his brother, but could not retrieve the ring as his brother ran away from the barbering shop with the ring.

Despite serious warning from Asiedu that the ring cannot be used by anybody apart from him, Aziadujor ignored the danger and wore the ring which appeared to be bigger than his finger, but he to put it on all the same.

Later in the night, he sneaked into Asiedu’s room and slept, but around 9pm the same night, his brother felt that the ring which was bigger than his finger had so tightened him beyond imagination that it became difficult to remove it.

He called his friend who was by then asleep to help him remove the ring from his fore finger, but they were not able to pull the ring which kept tightening him minute after minute.

The pain made him scream which attracted a large crowd to the scene to catch a glimpse while others also tried their hands on the 'juju' ring.

After moving from one hospital to the other without success, ‘stubborn’ Aziadujor was taken to a spiritual home where a man of God attacked the demons with prayers and eventually cut the ring loose to free the man.