The Best farmer of Adoe Community, Atia Agurantey believed to be 37 years of age was found hanging dead in his room at Adoe, a suburb of Odomase in the Sunyani West of the Bono Region. The said incident has thrown the residents in a state of shock as both yam buyers and co-farmers has since been heavily affected due to the demise of Atia Agurantey.
According to his wife, Adwoa Kubeysa whom he had four(4) children with narrated to Nimdie FM’s M’akosem show host, Alhaji Gongonorno that the incident happened when she heard unusual sounds from her husband room on Wednesday dawn around 3:00 am, and when she entered the room she saw her husband hanging on the bar of wood on top in his room tied with a metal wire around his neck. The assembly member of the community, Hon. Isaaku Sulleimana also stated that even though Atia was an extrovert type of man, he was very lively with hard work.
They have later reported the incident to the Odomase police station. The police together with other townfolks went into the room to retrieve the body at around 8:50 am. The body has since been conveyed by the Odomase police to the Municipal hospital morgue for autopsy and investigation.
By: Abena Konadu Agyapong