40-year old man to face six months remand for poisoning his wife

Efua Nkrumah, a 35-year-old wife of David Bremu has been poisoned by the husband David when she refused to listen to him. Efua, a sickle patient has been living on the support of her husband to survive until she was poisoned to death. On Wednesday 5 May, Efua was hospitalized for two days for rheumatic pains. It was in the early hours of Wednesday she complained of her sickle crisis affecting her abilities to wake up. David took her to the hospital at dawn when Efua couldn't even turn her head from one end to the other. It was her sickle crisis that had caused that as the doctors told David at the Sunyani Hospital. Efua was treated and allowed to go home on Thursday evening, after been admitted at the hospital for two days.

On Friday morning Efua received a call from her best friend over a funeral burial rite. The best Friend of Efua Nkrumah, Oforiwaa Danso was burying her mother on Saturday 8 May and called on Efua for assistance. David prevented Efua from going to the funeral on Friday evening when Efua told him in the morning, of her plans to attend the funeral. David couldn't allow his wife who had just come from the hospital going over for a funeral because the funeral was that of her best friend's mother. Efua pleaded with David on why she must be at the funeral but David still refused her on going that, she wasn't fully healed from the crisis she had on Wednesday dawn, which made her been admitted at the Sunyani Hospital.

Efua and Oforiwaa had a long history of a great sisterhood bond which they had established since their college days. It was Oforiwaa who paid for Efua's college fees when her father died during their final days at the college. It was Oforiwaa who sponsored Efua's wedding dress when she was getting married to David five years ago. The same Oforiwaa was the one who left her duties and came to be with Efua for three weeks when she had surgery during her second child in 2019, and all these reasons gave Efua no way of denying herself been present at the funeral, but David could not agree to it.

David knew Efua was to attend the funeral when Oforiwaa's family did fix the date for the burial in February 2021, but Efua's crisis which came on Wednesday prevented David from allowing his wife to attend the funeral. David argued with Efua but she wasn't willing to listen to the husband, on the excuse that it will destroy her friend if she doesn't attend the funeral. Efua had hopes that her friend will be ok seeing her at the funeral even if she wasn't feeling well, but the husband did not allow her. David tricked Efua on Friday that, he will personally send her to the funeral on early Saturday morning so they can both return from the funeral on Tuesday 11 May after mourning with Oforiwaa. Efua had made arrangements and even ordered a few things for the funeral when David served her poisonous medicines on Friday evening.

David made it seem it was one of the medications that were given to her at the hospital and gave her the drug to drink, not knowing she was been poisoned. Efua died on the Friday evening after she took the medication and David took her to the Omand mortuary at Nsawkaw on Sunday evening. David was arrested after Omand Mortuary alerted the police on the way he brought the body to the mortuary. David was arrested on Sunday after he had sent the body of his wife to the mortuary but cried that he had no idea the drug was poison. He hoped to give the wife a sleeping drug so she could not attend the funeral she was so much interested in going to, despite her condition. David's family on Monday morning pleaded to take the case home and settle it, but the police denied them the privilege that it was a murder case. He was subsequent denied bail on Monday afternoon when the family couldn't persuade the Nsawkaw Police to grant them their wish. The CID Dominic Attuahene, when I spoke to him last night, hinted that they were going to seek for a six months remand sentence to help them investigate the case. David will appear before the Sunyani High court this morning for his first court appearance.