Information reaching Daily Guide indicates that Togbe Tsikpi Fiator of Aflao Aveome is in the custody of the Ministries Police in Accra after a magic bottle he allegedly sold to a woman at the cost of GH�15,000 turned out to be fake.
The mystery bottle, which has been in high demand, is like a schnapp bottle with two staff at both sides. The price of the bottle, according to this paper investigations, ranged from GH�5,000 and GH�30,000.
According to our source, the woman, whose name was not made known, bought the bottle from the chief at Aflao and after conducting all tests on it, paid an amount of GH�15,000 to Togbe Tsikpi. But when she got to Sogakofe, she realized that the bottle had mysteriously changed. She allegedly contacted some Police friends of hers from Accra who came to Aflao to cause the chief�s arrest and placed him in police custody at the Ministries Police station.
According to or source, who has been involved in the business for long, there are some features that buyers use to identify its authenticity. He said apart from the two trademark staffs on both sides, the staffs are magnetic; hence, magnetic items like blade were used to test it.
Our source also disclosed that another way of checking the authenticity of the bottle, which is more magical, is done by the buyers themselves who are usually foreigners, adding that they usually buy the bottles at very high prices.
A final test, he said, is conducted by placing a tin of milk on top of the bottle and within seconds, the unopened tin of milk is expected to be drained of its content without any sign of it pouring into the bottle or elsewhere.
The source said the magic bottle business is very lucrative as lots of people travel the length and breadth of the country, with villages being their main targets, to search for them.
Some even travel to Benin and Togo where the bottle is said to be common because of the high number of native doctors there who have used the contents of the said bottle and kept them.
Those who limited their search to Ghana however invaded various villages and towns with powerful shrines such as Nogokpo, Antoa and many others where they believed they could find them.
According to our source, some fetish priests and priestesses were not left out as they made brisk businesses from the bottle. A popular paramount chief, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told this paper that though he was approached by some people for such bottle, many of which he had, he was scared to sell them because they were in his shrine and did not want to welcome the wrath of the gods.
He narrated that later, the same group of foreigners came looking for some old but specific Ghanaian currencies, as well as old made-in-Indonesia Singer sewing machines, at the same prices as that of the magic bottle.
Though our source could not tell the exact thing that the items were being used for, he suggested that the bottle could be used in cocaine-related businesses, with the speculation that when cocaine is poured into the bottle, it becomes extremely difficult to be detected. He told this paper that he personally sold the bottle for GH�20,000 (�200 million). All attempts to get the police to confirm the arrest of the chief have however proved futile.
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