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Oct 18, 2010 at 5:02am
Call for law on Witchcraft and Human Rights
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A former Chairman of the National Commission on Culture, Professor George Hagan has called for a legislation to make it a criminal offence for people who infringe on the rights of innocent Ghanaians particularly old women and accuse them of witchcraft.

According to him, such people accused for possessing witchcraft are not only dragged out of the community, beaten up and disgraced, but often lose their lives.

Speaking at a conference on Witchcraft and Human Rights in Kumasi, Professor Hagan noted that, the criminalization of the issue would go a long way to stop the inhuman attitude that is on the ascendancy in communities in the three regions of the north and some areas in the south.

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