The shrill cry of a two- year- old baby girl on
Sunday evening attracted a crowd to a house at
Ewukorpe Village near Adjei Kotoku in Ghana.
There, to their utmost surprise , they found
Adzo Numawor , the baby 's mother, bathing her
with steaming soup.
The astonished crowd wrestled the baby from
the mother only to realize that she had
suffered severe burns on the buttocks and the
private apart.
Kodzo Nubueke, the girl 's father , angered by
the harm caused by his wife to the child , gave
her hefty slaps in the face before he was
restrained by the crowd.
An eye – witness, Frank Gamordzie, told The
Spectator that Adzo 's husband killed a fowl that
Sunday evening for soup.
But as Adzo was drunk and could not prepare
the soup , the husband started to do so.
While cooking, he received a visitor who he
later went to see off . Before , then, he drew
Adzo 's attention to the soup on the fire and
also asked her to bathe the child .
Adzo , who was said to be heavily drunk,
staggered to the kitchen, took the boiling soup,
she considered to be water, poured it into a
bucked and started to bathe the girl with it .
The assemblyman for Akotoshie Electoral Area ,
Yevu Maclean , confirmed the story and
expressed concern about the drinking habit of
some people in the community.
He advised them against excessive drinking
saying alcohol besides, affecting their health ,
also impoverishes them .
The assemblyman advised them to invest what
they spent on drinking alcohol in their
children 's education and welfare.
