Gossips24.com reported, yesterday, that a finalist of the recently ended Miss Commonwealth Ghana beauty pageant had been sent to a juju man to be beaten after 500 Ghana cedis went missing in the home the contestants were being housed during the competition.
According to Nana Ama Essien the finalist who underwent this painful ordeal, she was stripped naked and beaten with a cutlass in a shrine after the rituals the fetish priest conducted suggested that she was the one who had stolen the GH¢500.00 from a fellow contestant during the competition.
Narrating the traumatic incident she wrote;
“I contested for Miss Commonwealth Ghana which was held of the 7th september. During our stay in the pageant house,one contestant’s 500 cedis got missing, my SIM card got chewed and my mobile money pin code got changed.
The pageant is over and I made it to Top 5 and this automatically means I have a contract with them. I was called by the CEO on Sunday 6th October to come to her house on Monday Morning to talk about my trip to UK.
I got to the CEO house and she said we going to koforidua to find out who took the money. We got to koforidua and mind you it’s a juju man’s house. A very big house with 2 different fence wall .
We were 10 in number and the juju man gave us an egg to with powder to throw if you are innocent yours will break but if not yours will turn out cooked I did and mine turned out cooked.
I was asked to naked myself by the juju man and he started beating me with Cutlass and put my finger into a boiling oil after given an egg to swear not to tell any third party if I do I will die.”
In a recent development, the Fetish priest, Torgbe Shito, who allegedly conducted the rituals and beat her with a cutlass, has reacted to viral allegations.
According to him, Miss Essien is telling lies. He vehemently denies hitting Miss Essien with a cutlass stating that Miss Essien confessed that she indeed stole the money after he consulted the gods.
He said;
“She begged the organisers for the embarrassment but we did not beat her,”
According to Togbe Shito, he has no idea where she the bruises are from because he never laid hands on her to torture her.
Miss Essien who is traumatised by the whole ordeal has threatened to sue the organizers of Miss Commonwealth Ghana pageant took her the Shrine.
In a related issue the CEO of Miss Commonwealth Ghana pageant and the Togbe Shito the fetish priest were arrested by the Eastern Regional Police for questioning have been granted bail.
