Mystery Death

The mystery surrounding the death of four-year old John Adiko, a pupil, remains unravelled almost a week after his body was found about a mile from Rainbow Motors, near the Spintex road in Accra

. Family sources said Ms. Sekyibea, a cousin of Adiko's father, took the little boy to his school, Learning Tree Academy, on the Spintex road on Wednesday, October 3, this year, and left him to enter when they reached the gates. That was the last time the family saw him alive.

Enquiries revealed that a woman selling yams took the boy away not quite long after Sekyibea had left him in the school.

A former teacher of the boy had seen the yam seller holding the hands of the little boy who was crying and the teacher supposed he was missing home and that the yam seller was giving him assistance.

In fact, on inquiring the teacher was reportedly told by the woman that she wanted to send her children to the same school Adiko was attending and would be glad to be assisted by the teacher.

The teacher said he would make a call first before joining the yam seller and the boy to the Learning Tree. But before she returned from the communication center the woman had bolted with the boy.

Mr. Robert Adiko, John's father, said on the same day around 2:00 p.m. he heard that the boy was lying dead about a mile away from Rainbow Motors.

When Mrs. Adiko, who is six months pregnant, heard the news she fainted out of shock and could not be revived until several minutes later in their Okponglo home, near the Spintex road.

Police Inspector Wilson of the Kpeshie Divisional headquarters, handling the case, said a caller had told them on phone that the body of the boy was floating in a pond and when they rushed there he was actually lying beside the pond.

An autopsy was being carried out on the body, while investigations into the act continued, he assured.