Wife allegedly burns husband, girlfriend to death

A Ghanaian woman, Theresa Nkrumah, 54, has been remanded for
allegedly burning her husband, Emmanuel Kwame Osam, 55 and his
girlfriend, Akosua Tiwaa, 34 to death.

According to Graphic Online, the incident happened at Akyem
Gyadam near Oda in the Eastern Region last Thursday and the bodies
of the deceased have been deposited in the mortuary.

At the Oda District Magistrates’ court presided over by Mr.
Kwesi Apiatse Abaidoo, police prosecutor, Inspector Rosemond Mensah
Aryee said that Nkrumah had known her husband was having an affair
with Tiwaa.

They had quarrelled about it on several occasions but Osam and
Tiwaa’s relationship persisted.

Abaidoo told the court that around 12:05am on December 13, 2018,
while Osam and Tiwaa were fast asleep in the former’s family house,
fire suddenly engulfed the bedroom through a window after an
unidentified person had poured petrol into the room and lit a match
to it.

When the lovers tried to escape, the deceased persons detected
that the door to the hall had been locked with a red padlock so
they started screaming for help.

As their screams attracted people in the house and broke into
the room, they realised that the two persons were badly burnt so
they rushed them to the Oda Government Hospital.

Tiwaa died immediately she reached the hospital so Osam was
treated and was referred to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for
specialist attention the following day.

Osam died around 11pm on December 16, 2018 while on admission at
the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

The incidence was reported at the Oda Divisional Police
Headquarters and Nkrumah was arrested at Gyadam at her stall.

While Osam was being taken to the hospital, he repeatedly said
that it was his wife, Nkrumah, who responsible for his ordeal.

Even through Nkrumah in her caution statement to the police had
denied knowledge about the crime.

However, police investigations revealed that she had bought the
red padlock from a shop at Gyadam in the afternoon before the
incident occurred.

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