Unconfirmed reports available to Kasapa News say at least eleven men suspected to be Ghanaians travelling from Nigerian on motorcycles have been beheaded after being shot dead in a savage attack by unknown assailants at Mango a community in northern Togo 26km from the border with Ghana.

The deceased were believed to be victims of “modern Day slavery” from Saboba and Chereponi in northern Ghana and were returning home after a yearlong toiling in farm fields of wealthy commercial farmers in Nigeria.

There is a common practice in the two poverty stricken districts where parents are tricked to enter a year agreement with some strange rich individuals from Nigeria, according to a resident of Saboba, Yaw ‘Operator’.

The parents are promised good jobs and improved living condition before they are paid for the teenagers to be handed over, Kasapa News has gathered.

However, after a year of hard labor mostly in plantation farms, the teenagers are released back to their parents with only a motorcycle and meagre wages.

Residents of the two districts therefore strongly believe those killed were their relatives coming back from the “slavery”.

Kasapa News was unable to independently verify the causalities but District Chief Executive (DCE) for Chereponi Hajia Mary Naboku confirmed the incident citing Ghanaians living around the community.

A former assembly member of Wanjuga a Ghanaian border community in the chereponi district Hon. Kofi who claimed visiting the community also confirmed but wasn’t able to identify the bodies.

He added police in Mongo told him Ghanaian passports and Voters ID cards bearing Bimoaba names were found.

It is also not clear when the incident happened but the DCE said Ghanaians living in Mango told her the incident happened at Jei and that the en bloc travelers were gunned down before their bodies decapitated in the night attack.

According to her the torsos of the victims were deposited at a health facility in Kara, hometown of former president Eyadema.

He added that there was a disseminated information by authorities of Togo to residents in Ghana to check identity of the deceased at the Kara hospital.

Kasapa News has learned scores of worried Ghanaians were travelling to the Kara city to confirm whether their relative were involved.

By: Eliasu Tanko