YWO TO DIE BY HANGING (MIRROR, PAGE 20, AUGUST 7, 2010)

From Chris Nunoo, Wa

Two Burkinabe nationals and a Ghanaian have been convicted of murder and manslaughter respectively by a Wa High Court presided over by Justice George Koomson.
The two Burkinabe convicts, Salou Bari 28 and Draman Yewana 26, were convicted on charges of murder and were sentenced to death by hanging, while Kobina Tangba, the Ghanaian, was also sentenced to 25 years in prison.
They were convicted by a seven member jury.
A Principal State Attorney, Mr Robert Beke who briefed The Mirror, said Bari, who was serving his sentence for some other offences in Ghana was handed over to the Burkinabe security in 2006 but managed to find his way back into Ghana two years ago to murder Abdul Sambo, a Fulani man at Han in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region.
He said Bari confessed that the deceased, Sanbo, was the one who gave him up to the police which led to his incarceration in Ghana.
Mr Beke said sometime last year, Yewana also murdered a woman at Fatchu in the Gwollu District when he attempted to rape the woman after she had resisted him.
He said Yewana got infuriated by the womans’ actions and pulled a club which he used to hit her head, resulting in her death.
He said he was subsequently arrested and put before court.
The Principal State Attorney said in the case of Kobina Tangba, who lived with his stepmother at Konjokala in the Nadowli District, he returned from the farm one evening and found out that the entrance to his room was wet, indicating someone had poured water at his doorstep.
He said he suspected his stepmother and therefore, confronted her. In the ensuing confusion, the stepmother pulled a pestle but he collected it and in an extreme provocation hit her, leading to her death.