FARMER WANTED FOR SLASHING WIFE (PAGE 54)

Story: Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Wenchi

THE police have mounted a search for a middle-aged farmer at Mansie, near Wenchi in the Brong Ahafo Region, for allegedly inflicting multiple machete wounds on his wife, Abena Sensah, 33, on suspicion of infidelity.
The suspect, G.K. Nsiah, alias Kwasi G.K., is alleged to have subjected the woman, a nursing mother, to severe beating, after which he followed her to her elder brother’s house where he inflicted the machete wounds on her.
The woman is said to have gone to her brother’s house to report the beating but the husband followed her there and slashed her with the machete.
The Wenchi District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Prince Sam Kwame Osae, who briefed the Daily Graphic on the incident, also alleged that Nsiah also attacked his brother-in-law when he attempted to stop Nsiah from slashing Sensah in his own compound.
According to DSP Osae, the woman was rushed to the Wenchi Methodist Hospital where she was immediately operated upon by a team of medical officers. She is currently in a stable condition.
At the hospital, the Medical Director, Dr Sibiru Ballu indicated that Sensah’s condition was so horrific that the health workers on duty when she was brought in at midnight could not stand the sight of the multiple wounds.
Dr Ballu said he and another doctor, Dr Boateng Bosomtwi, quickly sent her to the theatre, where they spent about six hours performing surgery on her.
Sensah, who spoke to the Daily Graphic on her hospital bed, said she had been married to her husband for several years and that they had two children.
The Administrator at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital, Mr B.C.K. Botwe, commended the two medical officers for their high sense of commitment and dedication to duty to save Sensah, adding that but for their timely intervention, she would have lost her life.