Story & Pictures: Tim Dzamboe, Tsito
AN intensive search for nine-year-old twins, Benjamin and Joseph Bani, whose disappearance was announced last January has produced a horrific story in Tsito in the Volta Region.
The town was thrown into a deeper state of shock last Sunday when the police discovered the skulls and other decomposed parts of two bodies in a septic tank behind an uncompleted building at the outskirts of Tsito. The body parts are believed to be those of the twins.
If that proves to be true, then it will be contrary to earlier rumours that the children had been abducted to the Republic of Togo.
The owner of the uncompleted building and the caretaker (names withheld) have been arrested and placed in police custody at Tsito, while one person is on the run.
The Volta Regional Police Commander, Mr Bernard Dery, who led the operation to the scene last Sunday, told journalists that five persons had been arrested earlier in connection with the crime and were in prison custody.
He disclosed that upon a tip-off, a team of policemen was instructed to mount surveillance in the area. It also ordered the septic tank to be drained, upon which the remains of the two children were discovered.
According to the Regional Police Commander, investigations had revealed that the children had been killed at a private hostel of the Tsito High/Technical School, adding that there was reason to suspect that they had been killed for ritual purposes.
Mr Dery further disclosed that there was blood linkage among the five suspects arrested earlier and between the two arrested on Sunday, adding that the police suspected that the suspects could be a syndicate.
Earlier this year, the children were reported to have been abducted at Awudome-Tsito in the Ho municipality.
The last time they had been seen was January 2 when John Adeku, now in custody, was said to have invited them into the house of one Dan at Tsito.
Adeku and three others have been in custody helping the police in investigations but Dan, said to be the prime suspect, is on the run.
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