By Moses M. Tokpah, mosesmtokpah@gmail.com
KAKATA, Liberia- Police here in the capital city of Margibi County are investigating the mysterious death of a 32-year-old woman in the county.
The lifeless body of the lady identified as Nowah Mulbah was discovered at about 6pm on October 9, 2022 in a Cassava farm in Borlorquelleh Town, District #4, Upper Margibi County by a young woman named Victoria Seymour who had gone to harvest cassava leaves.
It was learned that Nowah Mulbah was earlier seen in the town between the morning hours to the early afternoon hours but could not be seen by 6pm, after which time her lifeless body was found in the cassava farm by Victoria.
Victoria Seymour has informed Police investigators that she saw the victim lying on the ground in the Cassava farm at the time she was trying to get rope to tire the leaves she had harvested.
A Police source, who spoke to this writer said that Victoria further told police investigators that she became frightened immediately upon seeing the victim who was in a bad condition. That prompted her to rush to their Borlorquelleh Town and inform her grandfather, Joseph Livingston about the discovery of the lifeless body of Nowah Mulbah.
Joseph Livingston, a former National Fire Service personnel, told a team of investigators that when he received the information, he went to his neighbor identified as Stephen Gojah who accompanied him to the cassava farm to verify the information he had received from his granddaughter.
But they stopped halfway and returned to the town where they remained up to 7PM until Boakai Cooper, boyfriend to victim Nowah Mulbah arrived in town from his cha-coal base.
Mr. Livingston further told the police investigation that when they arrived at the scene, they saw skins falling off the victim’s body parts such as her both legs, chest, stomach and her face, something they assumed must have been as a result of acid.
Joseph Livingston stated that he advised Boakai Cooper to remove the body from the scene and take it to the town as darkness was setting in.
According to him, on his advice Boakai Cooper and Emmanuel Gbokolo, son in-law to Joseph Livingston lifted the lifeless body of the victim to their house where they deposited it before informing their town chief and subsequently their general town chief.
The remains of the woman was then buried on the 10th of October 2022 under questionable circumstances for which investigation is ongoing with the aim of deriving at the facts surrounding the death of the deceased woman.
At the same time, the three men are undergoing police investigation on the Charge of tempering with physical evidence by removing the dead body from the scene without authorization.
Meanwhile, residents of the town are said to be living in complete fear and do not easily go on their farms and into the bushes as usual.
Residents of Borlorquelleh town have expressed regret over the death of the woman whom they described as being serviceable to almost everyone in the town.
Panic has taken over some of the residents who are said to have fled the area and this town is now said to be largely deserted.