An 18-year-old student (name withheld) of Saltpond Methodist High School (MEHISCO) in the Mfantseman municipality of the Central Region on Saturday met his untimely death by defying his parents, who are staunch Christians, to engage in occultic practices.
The final year Visual Arts student was one of three students, whose ages range between 16 to 18 years who decided to seek voodoo powers from one Sir John, a popular native doctor at Mankessim.
Their request was to get rich-quick, excel in examinations and look more attractive to women.
Reports say the boy met his untimely death when he could not heed to all the instructions given him by the fetish priest although he had promised the fetish priest to fulfill those instructions.
Family sources told Today that the students were initiated into the occultic practice by some former students of the school.
The paper found out that the three occultic students practised occultism in the bush and sometimes in the classroom at odd hours when the school campus is virtually silent of programmes or activities.
The boy’s agony, according to insiders, started when he complained of a stomach ache compelling the school authorities to send him home for medical treatment.
The condition of the student, the paper gathered, begun deteriorating when he was admitted at the Central Regional Hospital at Abura in Cape Coast as his skin started peeling off; eventually leading to parts of the body decomposing whilst alive.
The odour that emitted from the decomposing body was so intense that it became extremely difficult for hospital attendants and visitors of the student-patient to attend to him regularly.
As his condition defied all drug applications, doctors and other hospital staff begun wondering what exactly had befallen the young student.
The young student, however, died a week after the strenuous ordeal at the hospital.
The two other accomplices, who obviously were disturbed about the death of their colleague then decided to disclose what they had secretly been engaging in to the school authorities.
The headmaster, according to sources, hurriedly arranged a staff meeting and invited some spiritual heads in the locality to see how best the matter could be addressed, while the two other students were instructed to stay with their housemaster until a spiritual solution was found to the problem.
However, reports say the school authorities have resolved to visit the fetish priest to break whatever spell or covenant the students had gone into with him before things get out of hand.
Today can also report that the matter has sent shocking waves down the spines of both the school authorities and inhabitants in the area.
STORY: FROM MAGDALENE SEY, CAPE COAST
