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Halloween is a one hundred per cent pagan celebration which is held on the 31st of October. This is the night or day when the ghosts leave their tombs and come to haunt the living people. This is the biggest celebration of Satan’s servants: wizards or Satanists. The Americans took advantage of this celebration, which was imported in their country, and transformed it into a real industry.

All people purchase all kinds of sinister accessories on this day. They buy masks, vampire costumes, devil costumes, they turn into dragons, zombies, skeletons and they also buy a lot of pumpkins which they chop, the Americans selling accessories of over half a billion every year.

All the other elements have to do with more spiritual aspects. Witches decorate their homes, they decorate their courtyards, they keep occult meetings, they predict the future and so on. Last but not least, they bring gifts to Satan, both for the present and for the future, therefore, violence and sin could never be more exploited.

The American people prepare themselves for Halloween more than they do when Christmas or Easter comes. Kids dress up in different horror characters, they scare other people and trick-or-treat for cookies around people’s homes. The braver ones go to the cemetery at night and have fun doing all sorts of occult things and rituals. It has been noticed that the number of crimes in the United States of America is usually larger on Halloween. In fact, eighty per cent of the kids who are fond of Halloween claim that they would like to spend their Halloween killing someone.

After three years based in England, Kwame Mainu was looking forward to returning to Ghana and settling with his wife, Comfort, in her house in Nhyiasu, the old colonial quarter of Kumasi. While working on a programme linking Kumasi University with Warwick University in England, Kwame had been forced to become involved in helping to prevent a Kumasi-based drugs cartel recruiting couriers from Ghanaian academics visiting Warwick. International collaboration in fighting the drugs trade had been thwarted by the Rawlings government’s apparent involvement. However, with the approach of the new millennium, and the completion of his two terms as president, there were good prospects of J J Rawlings standing down and a democratic election bringing to power the party once led by Kwame’s father’s hero Kofi Busia.

The new millennium offered hope of a new start in national governance which could include a radical change in attitude towards drugs trading. Kwame expected that a reformed administration would present an opportunity for negotiating an international treaty between Ghana and the UK in line with Leon’s ideas. While he supported such a move in principle, Kwame had no interest in any direct involvement and had made it clear to Leon that his aim was total retirement from the service. He had no intention of remaining a sleeping agent, or serving in any other reserve capacity. Kwame realised that he had many blessings to count and his outlook appeared rosier than at any time in the past. Wherever his mind turned he could discern only one dark menace: Peter Sarpong.

After Peter Sarpong’s early release from prison in the UK and repatriation to Ghana, Kwame had hoped that finding no compatriots left in the Kumasi cartel, Peter would settle for a quiet life in retirement, as Bra Yaw and Kofi Boateng had done. He had hoped that like Kofi Adjare, Peter would have no interest in working with the camel herders, Adjare’s name for the Lebanese directors of the Hanabis company. However, much to Kwame’s horror, Peter seemed intent on reviving the old cartel and rebuilding the Ghanaian involvement in the courier and distributive functions. He showed no aversion to continuing to work with the Hanabis directors. Even more sinister was Peter’s lust for revenge as visited upon Akos Mary for her involvement in his conviction and imprisonment. By this action Peter had shown himself to be a real and present danger.

Kwame suspected that he and his family might be in danger of violent retribution if Peter ever became aware of Kwame’s own involvement in his detection and arrest, or the imprisonment of his Uncle George, which led to Uncle George’s death in Nsawam Prison. While Kwame’s future prospects of a comfortable and fulfilling life in Ghana looked secure in almost every way, he knew that his mind could never be fully at rest as long as Peter Sarpong remained at liberty.