Please Go Away, You Ominous Dark Clouds

The New Publisher is worried about the growing reported incidents of violence, killing, cell break, fire outbreaks  and the general crime that seem to have enveloped the country in recent times.

It is difficult to judge whether it is the media that has turned its focus on such incidents or truly there has been a spike in such horrific nonsense.

Whatever the case may be, the current situation does not emit a pleasant smell and certainly is a cause of worry to any right thinking human.

The continuous nature of the incidents makes it as though there is an ominous incubus lurking in the skies gradually descending to consume us all.

Dust is yet to settle on the Kasoa incident in which two teenage boys are facing court trial for murdering a 10-year-old.

As if to add salt to injury, reports from Kumasi has it that a family of four people has been killed in fire outbreak that enveloped their residence at Manso Aponapon in the Ashanti Region around 11 PM last Saturday.

The father of the house, 48-year-old Kofi Owusu, his pregnant wife 38-year-old Esther Cobbina and their two children aged 5 and 8 were all burnt to death

The four were asleep with the fire reportedly started from one of the rooms and it spread fast, consuming everything it encountered.

Then it is reported that the Somanya Police in the Eastern Region have arrested a certain Prosper Negble who is suspected to have killed his own wife at guest house in and is helping in investigations.

Then is the report that two men have been arrested in the Eastern Region in possession of objects believed to be human skulls and bones, the police have said.

The two Awatey David Okra, 22, a driver, and Nicholas Amenuvor, 20 – were arrested by residents of Kwamekyere, a community in the Ayensuano District, following a tip-off.

Indeed according to what police spokesperson for the region, Francis Gomado, told the Accra-based Starr FM, the two suspects had a suitcase with the bones, they had a pot containing a human skull and a pan with some strange contents.

Same period, Starr FM is reporting that a 10-year-old boy had been set ablaze by another teenage boy, aged 14 near Kasoa.

Then same period, there is news that five people have been stabbed after mayhem erupted at a funeral in Apam in the Gomoa West District of the Central region.

Barely a forthright ago, there was news of a young footballer who had beaten his girlfriend to death and then attempted a failed suicide.

Then there is COVID-19 and its onslaught on us all, destroying lives and businesses alike.

Too much sorrow in the air…