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Eight arrested for beating 21-year-old during sakawa initiation in Bono
The suspects Featured Oct - 11 - 2026 , 20:59 2 minutes read The Bono Regional Police Command has arrested eight suspects over the alleged assault of a twenty-one-year-old man during what investigators describe as his initiation into internet fraud at Kotokrom in the Sunyani West Municipality.
The victim, identified as Godstime Umukoro, was found with multiple marks of assault on his body after a police patrol team responded to a distress call at about 4.
The police said preliminary investigations indicated that the suspects had been brought to Ghana by one Nwachukwu King Augustine, identified as their chairman.
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