When a five year old boy decided to run after his ‘chale wote’ which was been washed away in the drains of Tutu Akupem as it rained, little did everyone know that he was running his life to death. The morning after that his lifeless body was found in a ditch whilst his slipper was seen lying beside the gutter.
As he was playing in the falling rain, the five year old James Awuni, lost his slipper to the drains brimming with rain water. Not ready to let it go without a fight he run after it and apparently fell into the gutter. He was washed out like a paper, taken under the bridge at courtyard, through the nearby bushes, across the street and eventually left in the ditch about seventy meters from the main road.
Recounting the incident to this reporter, a sobbing bereaved mother Ama Afi said she last saw his son about thirty minutes into the rain when it subsided a little. The boy sought permission to with his elder brother to go to their aunt who lived about fifty meters away. Little did she know it was just an excuse to go and play in the rain.
The widowed mother of five said when they were unable to locate the boy a report quickly made to the queen mother who acted swiftly by organizing a search for the boy through the town. When they failed to locate the boy, a report was made to the Mampong Police Station.
In the company of a search party assembled by the traditional council and the assembly man, the police went looking for the boy. When the lifeless body was found, it displayed bruises on the forehead, a deep cut at the back and many other injuries on the body. It is believed that these injuries were attained as the body was been washed through the bush.
A barber in the town who saw the boy running through the rain shouted at him to leave to go home. This was however ignored as the boy continued to pursue his asset as it seemed.
The boy who was yet to be enrolled in school is reported to be seen playing in the rain anytime the rains come down.
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