A 19 year old boy drowned in the Densu river at Akwadum in the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region on Moday during the course of a swimming competition to win a bet.
Yaw Ayamba and two friends reportedly dived into the river and started swimming after an unidentified man threw them a challenge that the fastest swimmer in their midst would receive a Ghc 120 prize.
It was during the heated swimming contest that Ayamba failed to return.
“My son failed to return after a third round and people came to inform me about it; we immediately poured libation to enable swimmers search for him. His two friends and other youth in the area also made frantic search for him but could not find him,” the boy’s mother told Graphic Online.
The boy’s family, desperate to find him, went to see the chief priest in the area. The priest demanded GH¢900, a bottle of schnapps, a gallon of local gin, red chili pepper, and Ga kenkey to perform rituals for a successful search.
Despite bringing the items for the rituals to be conducted, the boy was not found.
It was at this moment that a comic sequence of events begin to occur in the town.
GraphicOnline reports….
 
The residents of the Akwadum community, forming a thick crowd, stayed at the bank of the river with the devastated family members of the victim for over eight hours of unsuccessful search.
In the course of the search, a preacher came to the scene, preaching that the people of Akwadum should repent from their “evil ways”, alleging that “sin” had engulfed the community, hence the calamity.
Just immediately, a Rastafarian by name Nana Afrifa Brambram, who claimed to be a fetish priest, also came around to help retrieve the body of the boy through his fetish antics.
He requested for a bottle of schnapps and two fowls, which he slaughtered and sprinkled its blood into the river but all his efforts yielded no result; a situation that made the community members to hoot at him and forced him to refund the cost of the fowls.
Another fetish priest from Koforidua called Francis Odoi also came and requested for a duck from the missing boy’s parents and a bottle of schnapps. He as well slaughtered the duck and sprinkled its blood into the river. This angered the priestess of the River Densu who came saying the River was angry over the splitting of blood into it.
The priestess also said she had to pacify the River god with a bottle of schnapps, which the boy’s mother purchased. She then sprinkled the alcohol on the river and placed a two cedi note on the water surface. But before the priestess could finish praying, a drunkard came from nowhere to pick the money from the water.
This created a scene of hilarious laughter among some sections of the crowd while others too got annoyed over the drunkard’s behaviour.

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