A alleged to be a Nigerian was on
Wednesday accused of selling human parts as fried
meat in a popular market in Accra, Ghana.
suspicion by her strange movement at the Adabraka
Market and vigilant traders were said to have
dragged her to the Adabraka Police Station.
Confirming the arrest, Greater Accra Regional Police
Commander, ASP Afia Tenge told the radio station
yesterday that the woman is half Nigerian and half
Ghanaian.
Tenge said the suspect is Florence Uju Appiah and
she is 60 years old.
“Thus far, she has confessed, saying she was
instructed to sell meat to make a living by her
spiritual pastor.
“She said she bought her meat at Makola and was
coming to sell at Adabraka market but she was new
in the market. She said selling the meat was a
direction from her spiritual pastor and that it was a
cow meat she had bought from Makola to come
and sell at the market.
“We only know its grilled meat but it is difficult for
the police to determine whether it is human meat or
otherwise, so we forwarded the said meat to
national Crime Investigation Department, CID for
forensic testing to show if it is human meat or not,”
the Commander added, urging people to be calm
until the result of the forensic report to determine
what kind of meat comes out.
Meanwhile, during her arrest on Wednesday, an
angry mob was about lynching her before police
officers came to her rescue.
The woman, according to the market women, was
carrying a tray with some pieces of meat, and all
attempts to get her to disclose the source and type
of meat she was carrying reportedly proved futile.
One of the market women told reporters that, “the
lady was selling the meat and when we queried her
to find out what she was selling she refused to
talk.” She was cunningly moving about with the
meat in a broken tray.
“We asked her the cost of the meat but she refused
to answer, so what else can we think of? That was
why we marched her to the police station. The meat
looked like beef,” she added.
Another market woman, Effia said, “We were told
that the strange meat was meant for ritual and was
given to her by her pastor. If it’s for rituals, she
should be sent to the person who gave her this
weird meat to sell to unsuspecting consumers.
“She refused to answer and she was behaving
strangely, we realized its human meat. According to
some of my colleagues, she confessed that it is
human meat and that her pastor gave it to her to
perform some rituals.”
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