Tamale: Religious leader murders children, chop their bodies into pieces
Two children both aged three, have been murdered in a suspected ritual killing at Kakpayili, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region.
Their decomposed bodies chopped into pieces were abandoned in a vehicle behind one Mallam Madaha’s house.
Background
Two children from the Kakpayili community reportedly went missing on June 22, 2024.
A search was conducted for the boys, but after two days of not finding them, an official complaint was made to police on June, 25, 2024.The name of Mallam Mahada was mentioned as a suspect and he was invited to the Kakpayili chiefs palace.
He earlier denied but later admitted to killing the children and other six children bringing the total number of children he killed to eight.
Police were invited and a search was conducted at his residence. Some human body parts of children were found in a car and in a locked room.
The discovery of the bodies heightened the residents’ anger, leading to the burning and vandalising of Mallam Madaha’s house.
Mallam Madaha and his wife have since been in police custody.
