I recently chanced on a video posted on Facebook by the renowned singer, Kofi Kinaata lamenting how fante kenkey is now wrapped with plastic rubbers, then covered with the traditional plantain leaves before cooking on the fire. His concern was that this predispose the consumers to several ailments. Indeed, this …
Read More »Baby wrapped in white cloth, placed in box and dumped in bush at Kwabenakwa
A day-old baby has been abandoned at Kwabenakwa near Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. The newborn baby according to the Obuasi Police was found wrapped in a white cloth and placed in a paper box. Unfortunately, the innocent baby was not found in the bush where he was dumped on …
Read More »Man found dead, wrapped in plastic under bridge at Ho
An unidentified man has been found dead under a bridge near University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Ho Municipality. The man was found wrapped in black polythene and tied with a sellotape. According to sources, the body of the man was believed to have been dumped under the …
Read More »Polythene wrapped banku: A more deadly substitute for cigarettes?
A report shared by a Facebook user claims that eating banku, local fermented corn and cassava based food wrapped in polythene, is equivalent to smoking 135 sticks of cigarettes. Initial investigations reveal that this claim has been seen making its rounds online. With this re-circulation, the discussion has picked …
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