OSUMAN NEARLY LYNCHED IN TAMALE (PAGE 31)

THE 25-year-old man who confessed to killing his own brother and cooked parts of the deceased’s severed body for a meal, was nearly lynched by some irate youth in the Tamale metropolis on Wednesday evening.
A section of the youth, who recognised the suspect when an attempt was being made to transport him to Walewale for his second appearance at the district court, immediately raised an alarm attracting many people to the station.
But for the timely arrival of a police reinforcement, the suspect, Amadu Osman, would have been lynched by the agitated youth who were angered by his alleged heinous offence.
The two police escorts of the suspect immediately whisked him to the premises of the main branch of the Ghana Commercial Bank, where he was kept in a kiosk for safety.
The curious youth, whose numbers had swelled within that short time, some wielding stones and sticks, waited at the bank for almost an hour before a police vehicle finally picked the suspect back to custody, amidst tight security and boos and hoots by the enraged crowd.
According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Albert Johnson, the suspect had to be sent to the town, about an hour’s drive from Tamale, on Wednesday evening to prepare him adequately for court on Thursday.
He explained that the decision by his outfit to send him through public transport was due to the unavailability of a police vehicle at the Walewale station.
“We eventually had to send him through the public transport after later making arrangements with the driver to pass by the charge office around 9 p.m. to pick the suspect and an escort with the other passengers,” Mr Johnson intimated.
The suspect allegedly murdered his elder brother, Alhassan Osman, with some farm implements on the deceased’s farm at Guabiliga, a village near Walewale in the West Mamprusi District, on May 24.
The suspect, after the murder, chopped off the deceased’s arms and his entire manhood, parts of which he allegedly cooked and ate. He was alleged to have hidden the other parts of the severed body under a pile of rocks at the crime scene.
He was later arrested by a search party from the village and handed over to the Walewale police at the Guabiliga chief’s palace where he was tied to a tree.