MAN WANTED OVER WIFE'S DEATH (PAGE 34, MIRROR, FEB 6, 2010)

From Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Sunyani
  
For refusing to obey his demand that his wedded wife abort a three-month-old pregnancy, Solomon Korang, an employee of the Sunyani Office of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), is alleged to have struck the wife in the abdomen following a misunderstanding, resulting in her death.
Victoria Amankwah, 30, died at the Sunyani Regional Hospital, where she was rushed for treatment by her brother when she complained of severe abdominal pains last Friday, January 22, 2010.
The Sunyani Municipal Police have, therefore, mounted a search for Korang, a native of Fiapre in the Sunyani West District, who is alleged to have run away after committing the offence.
  An uncle of the deceased, Mr Korang Nyame, who lives at Domase, near Sunyani, told The Mirror within the precincts of the Municipal Police Station that while Takyi was rushing his sister to the hospital, she allegedly told him that the husband had struck her in the belly, following a misunderstanding over pregnancy and his demand for an abortion.
 According to Mr Nyame, there had been frequent fracases between the couple, since they were married about four years ago, for which he had personally been settling those cases that came before him.
 Mr Nyame alleged that the last time the husband came to lodge a complaint about his wife was during the Christmas celebration when the suspect allegedly told him that he would no longer marry her.
 Mr Nyame said he, therefore, advised that the suspect come back again, so that they would follow the due process of abrogating the marriage contract, since they were legally bound together at the Domase branch of the Christ Apostolic Church International (CACL).
 The uncle said he did not see his in-law again until he heard about his niece’s death, adding that but for his intervention, the youth of the town would have lynched the suspect when they heard that Victoria had died as a result of his alleged assault on her.
 Chief Inspector of Police B. Adu Asamoah, the Municipal Police Station Officer, who confirmed the incident, said the police were looking for the suspect to face the law, adding that the body had been deposited at the hospital mortuary for postmortem.