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Are you not troubled by the news emanating from Nakpanduri, our home? This must be worrying, and if you have never been worried, then get worrying. Nakpanduri is a town so popular in Ghana with notions of misdeeds for whatever reasons I do not intend to expatiate here. Over the years, there has been concerted efforts to regain the good reputation we hitherto enjoyed if there was any at all. These efforts by the passing days are being derailed by faceless malignant forces. I call them the monster which I should say should have been nipped in the bud from the time of its incipiency. But it is too late.
The beast that I most feared has crept in in Nakpanduri with its hideous face and allowed to fester. This monster is laughing mischievously somewhere I do not know for having triumphed in meting out the most atrocious acts on innocuous lives. This horrid thing of a beast triumphed by riding on the fear of men to speak truth and to act a prior in defence of life and humanity.
By the near guess of my memory, it was in Dec. 2019 when a little girl got missing by the aid of human hands in the midst of her playing mates. The whole town was thrown into fear upon hearing the news. As usual of people of Nakpanduri, in unison, a search party looked for her into every nook and cranny but returned home like Santiago in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea; they came empty-handed.
Days went by, but she was not found. Hope of finding her began to nosedive like flickers of fire. Though, the family kept on keeping on as was admonished by DCOP Maame Tiwa in the case of the 4 Taadi missing girls, that one day they will reunite with little Angela as so she was called. Days traveled to weeks and weeks to months, she was not yet found until one day news came in that there were remains of a dead little girl (with some parts of her body cut off) somewhere in Upper East. The family went there and confirmed it was the remains of their daughter. What and/or who took the girl to Upper East? This question is for the gods, but could it ever be responded to? I do not know!
The bereaved family, were left with permanent scars of bruises on their memories. In silence they sigh of anguish and sorrow longing for justice which has long fled the town.
The gossips and euphoria surrounding the strange mysterious beast that devoured a child in Nakpanduri lingered awhile and was erased in the minds of people with the passing of time.
Fast forward in 2020, there were litany of alleged incidences of kidnappings. If not by providence and the foil by onlookers, the fate of the victims in these unsuccessful kidnappings would not have been different from that of Angela. The hullabaloo around these matters did not go farther, it ended like a premature ejaculation except that the accused persons in these cases I understand only paid a paltry sum of Ghs1000.00, and had their freedom. Probably, the perpetrators were taking a cue from the 2019 incident or could have been the same stock of cartel, that gave them the temerity to dare.
The people of Nakpanduri slept on only to be woken by the town crier’s gong announcing yet the missing of a man who left to carry out his lawful duty at his work place. His only crime was going to work to fend for his family and bingo, he went missing.
People massed up with communal spirit and searched everywhere. They came home empty-handed. The only assurance the family had was hope— that their husband, father, brother, uncle etc. will return and reunite with them. Unbeknown to them, within the backyard of Nakpanduri lay him cold, unable to steer and parts of his body once again cut off. What barbarism!
If people can get up and cut off parts of a human for whichever reason known only to the predators, then this is that which should trouble you if you are not already. This is the chronology of how the beast feasted to its satisfaction on the blood of innocent citizens of Nakpanduri.
For the wanton clamour for treasure, fame and prosperity, humanity thus has lost its sanity. Without any scientific proof, it will not be farfetched if I hypothesise that there is more cannibalism in human than any class of living things ever in kingdom Animalia.
This is a security threat—and must be treated as such. The land of Nakpanduri should not be stained with blood of those who had to go through these dastardly acts. It has many dire consequences; it will scare away investors aside the fear it has already instilled in the town. The only way to placate their souls is to find the perpetrators and mete out justice.