Vida Danso, the 40-year-old shop owner of ‘Nyame Eye Ewie’; a rubber and utensils shop at Tanoso Emmanuel Methodist Church area, could not sleep and kept opening her front gate several times in the night before she finally decided on what to do. Vida with a plot in her head, looked side and side, check corner to corner, street to street before throwing a rubber with some liquid onto her container built shop
With matches, she threw four match sticks to the area she had first thrown the liquid to and with a small beginning fire, the shop burnt gradually as Vida hurried back to her house around two in the morning. With an assumption of everyone asleep, Vida forgot Mr Wiredu, a stroke survivor was still awake sitting in front of his house.
The 55-year-old Mr Wiredu who has developed a sleeping disorder because of his previous fights with stroke sat in front of his house and watched Vida as she set the shop on fire. Mr Wiredu reported all he had seen to Tanoso fire officers when they were called to the burning shop at three in the morning. With the aid of fire officers, Mr Wiredu was guided to the Tanoso police where he wrote his witness statements which have led to the arrest of Vida Danso for setting her shop on fire.
Vida’s best friend, Akua Boateng, has also been arrested by the Tanoso police for aiding Vida with the necessary advice and tools needed in burning the shop. Police investigations found Akua Boateng for being the one who supplied Vida with the chemicals she used in setting the shop on fire. The unidentified liquid chemical was to make the shop burn with no traces of human involvement, Vida said after her arrest.
Vida in before her arrest, was battling over GH¢13,000 bank loan and with the burning of her shop, she would have claimed insurance and her loan debt would have been forgiven by the bank as the insurance would have covered that cost for her. Vida is been charged with over three counts of crime which Insurance Fraud is one while her friend Akua Boateng is facing aiding and abetting a crime. Both women are still in police cells waiting for the outcome of the fire investigations. It is highly both will be remanded on their first appearance in court, Officer Henry Ofori of Tanoso Police hinted.
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