The Takoradi Circuit Court B has sentenced Kwabena Ebo, a 38-year-old resident of Ayisakro, near Axim in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region, to 10-year imprisonment for attempting to use his son for money rituals.

The man, a farmer, pleaded guilty to the charge of trading a person.

The prosecutor, Inspector Robert Yawson, told the court that the accused offered to sell his biological son for GHS 500,000 to a renowned fetish priest, Mr Francis Odasini, popularly known as Nana Tano Kwaw.

The man approached the fetish priest and requested that he use his son for money rituals to enable him to get money but the medicine man declined the proposition.

The suspect, however, returned on the same day to offer his son to the fetish priest for GHS500,000.   

The fetish priest, realising how desperate the man was to sell his son, pretended to be interested and promised to get him a buyer.

He then asked the man to go and bring his son.

The fetish priest subsequently lodged a complaint with the Axim Police Command.

The man was arrested when he took what was supposed to be the payment for the sale of his son in an envelope after bargaining with the undercover police officers.

The son, who is the eldest of 3 siblings, is a school dropout.

He lives with his grandmother and siblings at Akyerɛso near Akim Oda in the Eastern Region. 

The father went for him from his grandmother in order to sell him off to the fetish priest.