Miss Commonwealth Ghana Saga: Mother of tortured victim speaks

The mother of the 24-year-old beautiful lady at the centre of the just-ended Miss Commonwealth beauty pageant juju, money stealing and beating saga, Belinda Owusu Ansah, has reacted to the incident.

Nana Ama Essien according to her narration was allegedly stripped naked and beaten to pulp in the shrine for allegedly stealing GH¢500.00 from a colleague during the competition.

“I contested for Miss Commonwealth Ghana which was held on the 7th September. During our stay in the pageant house, one contestant’s 500 cedis got missing, my SIM card got chewed and my mobile money pin code got changed. The pageant is over and I made it to Top 5 and this automatically means I have a contract with them.

I was called by the CEO on Sunday 6th October to come to her house on Monday morning to talk about my trip to the UK. I got to the CEO house and she said we going to Koforidua to find out who took the money. We got to Koforidua and mind you it’s a juju man’s house. A very big house with 2 different fence wall.

We were 10 in number and the juju man gave us an egg to with powder to throw if you are innocent yours will break but if not yours will turn out cooked I did and mine turned out cooked. I was asked to naked myself by the juju man and he started beating me with Cutlass and put my finger into a boiling oil after given an egg to swear not to tell any third party if I do I will die.”

In an interview on Adom TV’s morning show, Badwam, madam Owusu Ansah was over-ridden by tears as she narrated her daughter’s ordeal.

“I never heard the story until I heard my daughter spoke about it on Adom FM and I was hurt when I saw my daughter; I actually broke down,” she said.

“She [my daughter] told me she had been to hell and back. If not for God, my daughter would have been dead,” she added.

Mrs Owusu Ansah also stood by her daughter’s innocence, insisting that the allegations of theft against her were borne out of some other considerations.

“Nana Ama will not pick my money even when I leave it in the room. Even if she picks it, she will give it back to me. Why would she steal GH₵500,” she asked.

The distraught mom said also she now wants is justice for her tortured daughter after officially lodging a complaint with the police in the Eastern Region.

Meanwhile, the Eastern Regional Police Command has confirmed that the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Beauty Pageant, Princess Duncan who sent the girls to a fetish priest popularly called Togbe Shito, at Kukurantumi in the Akyem Abuakwa North Municipality and four others along with the Fetish Priest are under investigation.

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