FIDA rescues women from trial by ordeal
The Ghanaian Times,
Abdul Majeed
But for the timely intervention of the police and the Northern regional Coordinator of Federation of International Women Lawyers Association (FIDA), a woman who had been branded a witch would have been lynched.
The woman, Fati Adam, 52, had been accused of bewitching a young man who died in the village recently. The youth dragged her to the chief’s palace and held her for three days without food, while taking her through some painful rituals to force her to confess.
Narrating her ordeal to the Times here yesterday, Fati said, “but for the timely intervention of the police I would have been a dead person by now.” She said for three days she was kept in the chief’s palace, the youth lashed her with a bicycle chain. At a point hey threatened to kill her if she did not confess that she killed the man. Her claim of innocence infuriated them the more.
Ms Mahama confirmed the story saying the youth nearly burnt her car. She recaleed that a good Samaritan from the village reported the matter to her office and she in turn reported it to the Tamale Police who detailed three policemen to accompany her to the scene. Ms Mahama said as soon as they got to the scene, the youth attacked them and smashed the windscreen of her vehicle.
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