The news of the gruesome murder of a female teacher over the weekend in Sunyani has struck inhabitants of Sunyani and its environs with grief and awe.
Madam Alice Nimoh, a teacher at Stadium Primary School in Sunyani, was killed by unknown assailants at Mayfair, a suburb of Sunyani.
The murder of the primary school teacher occurred late in the night of this past Friday, March 19, 2010 around 1a.m.
At the time the police got to the murder scene which was around 4 a.m., the morning of that fateful Friday, Madam Nimoh was found dead with ropes firmly tied around her legs and hands.
The police after its forensic analysis of the murder carried the corpse to the Sunyani municipal hospital mortuary for autopsy.
In an interview with Today, a woman eye-witness who lives in the vicinity said she heard gunshots in the house around midnight but could not come out to see what was happening because she feared for her life.
A 11-year-old niece of the deceased who escaped the attack although managed to report the incident to some residents of the area, their intervention was too late. Indeed at the time of their arrival at the scene of the incident, Madam Nimoh had already been murdered by her assailants.
According to the young girl, the assailants were two in number; one wearing a mask, while the other was bare-faced.
Sources close to the deceased disclosed to Today that Madam Alice was having marital problems with her husband, following which the couple resolved to dissolve their marriage at a law court in Sunyani.
The two appeared in court last week, but the matter was adjourned.
When contacted the police confirmed the incident, describing it as an assassination plot. They, however, declined to comment further since the matter was being investigated, adding that at the right time they will come out with the real facts.
The family of the deceased also remained stone-silent when reached for comments on the matter, indicating their willingness to speak only after the police had finished with preliminary investigations.
A source close to the deceased disclosed to TODAY that Alice came to Ghana because of problems she had with her husband, while the couple were living in the United States of America.
The husband, according to the source was alleged to have married a new woman; a move many allies of the deceased believed might have triggered deep animosity between the late Alice and her husband.
An anonymous family source hinted TODAY that the deceased’s husband who came to Ghana recently asked the deceased to move from a house which the husband said was his.
Alice, the source further disclosed refused the husband’s directive, insisting that whatever the husband had achieved was made possible by the help offered him (the husband) by the father of the deceased.
“Alice confided in some of us that her father helped her husband in so many ways, including even helping him to travel abroad”, the source indicated.
STORY: MICHAEL SARPONG MFUM, SUNYANI
