The dad and mum of four kids – three boys and a girl – found suffocated to death together in a disused deep freezer same day have been arrested by the police on suspicion of murdering them.
The children’s Nigerian mum, known simply as Auntie Mary, had earlier in the day at 3pm left them in the care of their father, Mallam Zakaria Adogbru, a Beninios spiritual, and gone to the market.
At 5pm Mallam Adogbru left the children at home and went out.
When they returned, all four kids were nowhere to be found. A search for them in the vicinity turned out fruitless until upon impulse they decided to check the out-of-use deep freezer. All four were dead inside.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Police PRO named the kids as Ali Tanko, 12, a Class 2 pupil; Mohammed Alidu, nine; Arafat Adogbru, five, KG 2, and Atika Adogbru, two, Creche.
They are Tanko, a Class Two pupil of the Bechem Demonstration School; Arafat, a KG Two pupil of the same school, and Moses, a KG Two pupil of the Anglican Basic School, all boys, and Atika, a girl, a pupil of the Crèche Department of the Joy International School.
The sad and shocking event, which the police are investigating, occurred at Maame Ntiriwaa Junction, a suburb of Bechem, in Tano South district of Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region.
The police are still investigating the bizarre incident that claimed the lives of four siblings in Bechem in the Tano South District in the Brong Ahafo Region last Wednesday, October 15, 2014.
ASP Tawia said the bodies of the children had been deposited at the Bechem Government Hospital for preservation and autopsy.
A neighbour who sought anonymity, hinted that the four children did not go to school that day – Wednesday – because financial problems. Apparently they had been sent home from their various international schools for non-payment of fees.
She disclosed: “When Auntie Mary returned home and could not find her children in the house, she went to the nearby houses where the children always went to play with their friends to search for them.
“After an unsuccessful search by the mother, some of the residents joined in the search.
“After many attempts to trace the children had yielded no results, the search party went to the children’s home, where they instinctively opened one unused deep freezer which had been abandoned in one of the rooms, only to find all the children dead in it.
However, there were no bloodstains in the deep freezer or on the bodies of the children.”