Three Days In Pit Latrine

The mysterious disappearance of a 48-year-old woman from the farming community of Samraboi Junction near Asankrangwa in the Western Region threw the residents into a state of panic.

But her rescue three days later from inside a pit latrine in the community has deepened the mystery, causing residents to look at her askance and to talk in hushed tones. For there is no way the full grown woman could have slipped through the small aperture through which faeces are expelled.

The top had not caved in and it top had to be hacked up to pull out the woman. And mum is the word. She is not talking.

Information reaching The Weekend Heritage has it that on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Madam Ama Aso "disappeared" from the village and for two days her family members could not trace her whereabouts. < p> Following a report to the Odikro of the town, a search party was organized to search for this mother of four that same day but all efforts by the group proved futile until Yaw Anokye came to the rescue on the third day.

According to our source, on September 12, 2003 at about 6 pm Anokye told his father he was attending nature's call behind the pit latrine when he heard strange noises under the latrine which has a single hole moulded in such a way that not even a-one-year old child could slip through.

With the speed of a jet plane, he went back to the house and informed his father who quickly went out and gathered some me who armed themselves with sticks and guns to where the pit latrine was.

Lo and behold, there was this strange voice of a human being going on inside the smelly pit latrine. Anokye's father, hoping against hope, called out the name of the disappeared woman, who surprisingly responded from down below.

They hurriedly organized themselves and started breaking up the wooden boards with caution till they saw Madam Ama Aso, looking cheerful but almost covered with faeces.

She was pulled out but refused to talk to anyone, including the Odikro, about how she entered the pit latrine.

She was given a good bath in the stream and later fed with mashed plantain with palm oil (oto) with eggs, a traditional dish for recalling someone's soul back to him.

As at press time, Madam Aso was reportedly living normal life, but still tight-lipped about her mysterious adventure.