1980s Ritual Killings: How 9-year-old Kofi Kyinto was murdered for money rituals

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  • Capricorn 15 hours ago

    A tooth for a tooth, An eye for an eye. Bring back death sentence to install discipline

  • The Spear 15 hours ago

    We need that kind of execution for ritual murderers and armed robbers even now!

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  • Ghanaman 11 hours ago

    I still remember the story of Kofi Kyinto, the picture of a man holding his severed head with the eyeballs rolled up. Poor boy, imagine the terror and suffering he went through.

  • Osaberima mensah 10 hours ago

    Hmm, who born dog during JJ's era? kronfour kufour came around and since then, the downward of Ghana. Even at all, there was discipline in Ghana kronfour kufour came in and his ambition was 3suantifo shouldtake over Ghana. Al ...
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  • Papakyene 10 hours ago

    @ Osabaritrumuu
    Wo maame twe, What abt the innocent souls?
    Kosiaaa

  • Osaberima mensah 8 hours ago

    Which innocent souls, the once kronfour kufour spread around Ghana to win power during 1999 and 2000? This senseless attitude of some of you ppl are the very reason Ghana is where it is, Oy3 mi krom yi 3nsti maaka naas3m.
    Wo ...
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  • Jones Kumi Larbi 8 hours ago

    When people are insulting Kuffuor, your tribesmen are not qualified to do same.

  • The Spear 15 hours ago

    We need that kind of execution for ritual murderers and armed robbers even now!

  • The Spear 15 hours ago

    We need that kind of execution for ritual murderers and armed robbers even now!

  • The Spear 15 hours ago

    We need that kind of execution for ritual murderers and armed robbers even now!

  • The Spear 15 hours ago

    What's wrong with Ghanaweb internet connection?

  • Klaase Klose Marfhen 15 hours ago

    Even the USA practices Capital Punishment to reduce crime

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 14 hours ago

    Don’t commit murder in Texas and expect the Bush Family to Sentence you to Prison. They don’t do that..
    I remember some time ago, a lady who was on the Death Row supposedly became a converted Christian who started preach ...
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  • Aden 15 hours ago

    It did not happen in the 1980s,

  • Chai!!! 13 hours ago

    Happened right in 1980s.

  • James 8 hours ago

    It happened in November 1987 in Sefwi Bekwai, then Lamiley Sampa's murder by Nana Twene at Abesim followed in February 1988 - just four months apart. Because the orchestrators of the ritual murders were both chiefs, people t ...
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  • Ghana K 14 hours ago

    I was present during the whole proceedings at the National Tribunal located in the State House (Job 600) now Parliament House. Whoever made the video is acting on hearsay. Kofi Kyintoh didn't refuse to go to school. It was a ...
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  • Opon owusu 13 hours ago

    That's true

  • OGYAM 10 hours ago

    You are right, Kofi didn't go to church and not school, Also he was not beaten to death

  • Opeteku77 11 hours ago

    Your narrative is the correct one. It happened in 1987/88 if my memory is right.

  • Akos 10 hours ago

    Yes, the Uncle convinced Kofi not to go to church. That is how he abducted and killed

  • Sam 14 hours ago

    JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUTH AND THE ETERNAL LIFE

    REPENT AND COME TO HIM NOW!!!

  • K 10 hours ago

    Amen

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 14 hours ago

    If it should be Akuffo Addo's government the killers will pay bribe and go Scott free, NPP and money don't go there

  • Joko 13 hours ago

    I love this story , at least the whole world knows were ritual killing started and exported to other countries in Africa. Way back in the 80s other countries were living comfortably with oil boom only to be infested by Ghanai ...
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  • The Spear 11 hours ago

    Nonsense! Your people started being cannibals since the beginning of last century.

  • GOLDEN 13 hours ago

    HORRIBLE,JAIL THEM FOR LIFE,AND THROW AWAY THE KEY,THEY ARE DANGER TO SOCIETY,PERIOD!!!!!!! GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE,THE STIFF-NECKED,BLACKS,WERE CAPTURED AS SLAVES FOR DISOBEYING THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY OUR CREATOR,
    DO NOT COP ...
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  • Ghanaman 11 hours ago

    You have the classical signs of an dentity crisis.

  • Ghanaman 11 hours ago

    Identity crisis

  • Chai!!! 13 hours ago

    That was Papa J.

  • nab 12 hours ago

    good one, we want this back.

  • JP 12 hours ago

    Joko or whatever you call yourself, until Ghanaians sojourned to Nigeria and returned after the so called 'Ghana must go' such crimes and behavior were alien to Ghanaians. Ritual murder, aggressive armed robbery (in which pol ...
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  • Nii Adjei Sowa 12 hours ago

    So, ritual killings started in Ghana, we were never taught this side of us.

  • Kwaku Adjei 12 hours ago

    Nii Adjei sowa, you are a Foolish fool.

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  • Kwaku-Holland 12 hours ago

    I remember this case paa as a child in Accra. God for the firing squad. The uncle was so wicked. May Kofi Kyinto continue to rest in peace

  • Nsor 12 hours ago

    Ghanaweb, what are you trying to achieve with this idiocy of a write up? Are you implying that they were executed without due process?

  • Nsor 12 hours ago

    Corrupt politicians and government officials found culpable deserve to be shot as they are worse than ritual killers

  • Paa solo 11 hours ago

    I remember reading this story very well, but not sure if in the 80s or early 90s.

  • Boye 10 hours ago

    Please, which of the Bekwai s? Asante or which.

  • Kennedy Agyepong 10 hours ago

    It happened in Sefwi Bekwai in the 80s.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 10 hours ago

    Wicked neggas.....working hard and smart that's the way to success not this stupidity. Stay away as far as you can from illiterates..I'm sure these fools who orchestrated the killings were all uneducated illiterates

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  • America home of democracy still kills 10 hours ago

    There are certain cases like killings,armed robbers, kidnappers must faces death sentences

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  • Agbelimor Paris 9 hours ago

    Papa J was a good man

  • Jones Kumi Larbi 8 hours ago

    The one thing I like about JJ.

  • Klaase Klose Marfhen 8 hours ago

    I witnessed the trial every time they sat on the case at the tribunal in 1988. The Paramount Chief of Sefwi Bekwai Nana Akaa and his accomplices were lined up at the court each time. The tribunal Chairman Mr Agyekum in his se ...
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