Kwaku Bonsam blames politicians for recent suicides
The recent spate of suicides among Ghanaian youth should be blamed on politicians, popular witch doctor and fetish priest, Nana Kwaku Bonsam has said.
According to him, some politicians who sought the services of the gods during the 2016 electioneering campaign have failed to honour their promises to the lesser gods.
In an interview with Kasapa FM, he opined that as a result of the failure on the part of politicians to fulfil their promises to the gods, the series of  suicide will continue to confront the country in the days to come.
Recently, two female students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Ghana (UG) committed suicide.
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While the KNUST lady was a first year students who hanged herself with a rope in her room, the UG student, in her final year, jumped to her death from a storey building.
A man has allegedly committed suicide at Jericho near Ashaiman.
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The man believed in his 30s, was found hanging on a tree in the area Monday morning.
An eyewitness apostle Christopher Hood said the deceased is not known by residents of the area. A number of people besieged the scene of the incident to catch glimpse of the body.
A man in his 30s was reported to have committed suicide at Achimota in Accra while another 16-year-old Junior High School (JHS) student in the Eastern Region hanged herself.
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Also, a lady believed to be a resident of Ekye-Amanfrom at Afram Plains in the Eastern Region has allegedly committed suicide. Her body was found hanging from a reservoir near the Ekye Presbyterian Health Centre on Monday, March 13.
Meanwhile, he has led a delegation of traditionalists to the Supreme Court demanding government to build a National Shrine.
According to Kwaku Bonsam, the Ghana Association of Fetish Priests is a baby organisation that needs a headquarters for their meetings and other activities.
"We are a new association and we need the government to help us build a National Shrine," he said.