Lydia Forson firmly believes poverty is the scourge of the recent ritual killing involving the two teenagers at Kasoa.
News spread wildly over the weekend that two teenagers have killed a 10-year-old boy at Coca Cola, near Lamptey, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region. The news has since assumed the centre stage on mainstream and social media as people offer their own interpretations.
Sharing her two cents about it, the highly opinionated Ghanaian actress believes poverty should be pegged as the main contributory factor aside from mallams, prosperity preaching, and advertisement on money rituals which people have also identified as the underlying cause.
She wrote;
“Prosperity preaching.
Internet Fraud.
Money Rituals.
…and the many things promising instant cash thrives on poverty and people’s desperation. If a system is so broken that being educated, and following the rules doesn’t guarantee even the basics in life, people will do just about anything to thrive.
Are people greedy? Yes, and there will always be those who just want things the easy way.BUT a majority of people are just trying to survive a poor educational system, broken homes, poor health care and infrastructure and even lack of water.
Ghana is hard and the harder things get the more desperate people become and the breeds more scams, prosperity preaching and miracle water that’s supposed to change your life.
Let’s not allow this conversation to be shifted with blame put on one factor and not the many contributing factors.”
Meanwhile, it has also been established that the killers initially planned to kidnap the deceased, demand a ransom before carrying out the rest of the diabolical scheme.
“The accused initially planned to kidnap deceased Ishmael and demand a ransom of GH¢5,000 from his mother, which they would add to send him for the rituals. On the arrival of Ishmael (at the uncompleted facility), they realized that kidnapping him would be a difficult task and so they decided to kill him,” Chief Inspector Agbo said when the duo appeared in court on Tuesday.
SOURCE: www.Ghgosip.com