POLICE EXHUME MULTIPLE HUMAN REMAINS IN CENTRAL TONGU SHRINE
During an operation, the Ghana Police Service’s Homicide Unit discovered and excavated several human remains interred in a shrine in the Central Tongu District’s Gblorkope.
This comes after Nelson Anyana, 28, vanished and a suspected ritual murder occurred.
The discovery of several human bones, some hidden beneath idols at the shrine, was a breakthrough in the homicide investigation into Nelson’s alleged murder.
In relation to the alleged murder of Nelson, who was previously reported missing, six people have been taken into custody and charged.
Following a search of a property thought to have been used for ritual purposes by police investigators from the Homicide Unit in Ho, together with three important suspects, the breakthrough was made.
The body of Nelson Anyana, who had been missing since December 2024, was exhumed from the Gblorkope shrine, confirming police suspicions of ritual murder.
Police suspicions of ritual murder were confirmed when Nelson Anyana’s body was excavated from the Gblorkope temple. Anyana had been missing since December 2024.
Three more skeleton remains were found by authorities during the search, hidden beneath other idols at the same spot.
Suspicions that the location may have been used for repeated ritual killings were heightened when other human body pieces thought to belong to other victims were discovered buried in surrounding bushes.
The suspects, all residents of Mafi Adidome, are Augustina Fiawoyife, unemployed; Wisdom Hedidor, a herbalist; and Courage Bedzo, a kente weaver.
The others are Gblor Noah, also known as Ekpedzi, a fetish priest aged 37; Gblor John, a 38-year-old security guard; and Gblor Johannes, a 27-year-old lotto writer. The last three, who are siblings, are reported to be operators of the Gblorkope shrine.
According to police investigations, the case began when Comfort Hatse, a trader from Donkorkrom and mother of the deceased, reported him missing on December 17, 2024.
