Latifa Bumaye, one of the key suspects in the alleged lynching of Akua Denteh, 90, at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region has has been remanded into prison custody by the Bole Magistrate Court.
She has provisionally been charged with murder.
Latifa Bumaye, 25, is suspected to be one of the accomplices of a spiritualist captured in a video that went viral flogging the late Akua Denteh.
She was accompanied to court by Chief Prosecutor Abdulai B. Awini and three other police officers from the Savannah Regional Police Command.
The presiding magistrate, His Worship Prince Cudjoe, explained that the police sought to remand the accused person to enable investigations to continue.
The accused is to reappear later this month, on Thursday, August 20.
Latifa Bumaye was arrested on Thursday, July 30 at Kejewu Bator after she was declared wanted by the police.
She was transported to the Salaga Divisional Command on Friday, July 31 and later to Damongo capital of the Savannah Region.
Her arrest, brings to six the total number of persons arrested in connection with the alleged lynching of Akua Denteh after a self-styled priestess declared her a witch.
Four others are still on the police wanted list.
By Christopher Amoako|editors.3news.com|Savannah Region|Ghana
