A 32-year-old convict at the Winneba Local Prison, Isaac Assah has confessed that he would have killed his mother for money rituals to escape poverty.
He made the confession in prison when a team from Crime Check Foundation (CCF) interacted with him during a working visit to the facility.
Assah, a former shop attendant revealed that he wanted to join an occult group because of his desire to be wealthy at all costs.
According to him, he found an occult page on Facebook advertising for people to join which he became interested in.
After contacting them, the purported ritual group demanded that he provide some items to enable them to perform the necessary rituals to initiate him.
This he said pushed him to steal his shop owner’s money.
“Initially, they asked me to send them Ghc 1,500 to start with the rituals for the initiation and I did,” he said.
The father of two said they continued to demand further items from him and he sent them monies up to Ghc 5,700 from the cement shop he manned as an attendant.
“I sent them the monies without him meeting them in person. They promised to buy me a house and a car so I was desperate. I would have killed my mother if I was asked to offer her for rituals,” he said.
Assah said his life truly turned around overnight but not as he expected because he rather ended up in jail contrary to his wish of living a luxurious and free life.
He could not refund the money he took from the shop after his boss demanded he render accounts for sales for two weeks.
He could not account for the missing Ghc 5,700, which he stole leading to his arrest.
“I thought I would have been able to raise the money I took but by the time my boss asked me, I could not refund it,” he recounted.
This led to his arrest and subsequent imprisonment at the Winneba Local Prison.
