A secret security camera has captured the image of the person who killed
two watchmen at Apsonic Motors and Kasapreko, opposite the Ashaiman
Senior High School at Ashaiman near Tema, on Saturday night, The
Chronicle can report.
The image captured by the camera is also believed to be that of the
same person who murdered one Joshua, a coconut seller by the
Tema-Akosombo road.
A reliable security source who spoke to The Chronicle said the murderer
applied the same modus operandi using concrete blocks to hit the back
of the heads of the victims. After the killing, the murderer surgically
extracted their eyes and tongues.
The Chronicle’s independent investigation reveals that on that fateful
night, the dual carriageway in the area where the crime was committed
was temporarily blocked by unknown persons, making it impossible for
vehicles to ply.
Following the horrifying incident, the police, in the early hours of
Monday September, 16 2019, assisted by armed personnel drawn from the
Eastern Naval Command and First Battalion of Infantry descended on
suspected criminal hideouts in the Tema Metropolis and Ashaiman
Municipality.
The exercise was carried at Tema New Town, Community 5000 in the
defunct Meridian Hotel enclave, and Tulaku near where Joshua, the
coconut seller was killed.
Meanwhile, the police at Afienya have arrested a notorious criminal,
Francis Nutufe Kwaku Azumah, 34, a mason, alleged to have led some
daring armed robbery escapades in the jurisdiction.
The Afienya District Police Commander, Superintendent Asiamah Agyei,
who confirmed the arrest to The Chronicle, stated that an accomplice in
these robberies, only known as Kobby, is at large and has, therefore,
been declared wanted.
According to Superintendent Agyei, the suspect and his gang had been
terrorising residents of Newland, Mataheko and Jerusalem, among other
areas with impunity. He mentioned that some months ago, the criminal
group attacked the home of a businesswoman in Newland, and at gunpoint
robbed her of cash and other valuables.
In the early hours of last Thursday morning, the police boss intimated
that Azumah allegedly led an onslaught in the area and robbed, at least,
five homes.
In another development, Inusa Musah reports from Prampram that the
Prampram District Police had picked Ali Kofi Sewanu as a suspect in the
gruesome murder and burning of a family of three at Zutsukope, a farming
community at Tsopoli, a suburb of the Ningo-Prampram District in the
Greater Accra Region.
Joshua Koranteng Oman, 35, his wife and three-year-old child were
ambushed, killed and set ablaze by unknown assailants at about 8pm last
Thursday night when they were on their way home after fetching water
from a stream.
The deceased were charred beyond recognition, but their Nissan Hardbody
pickup, with registration number GW 8970 V, aided neighbours to locate
their immediate relations to break the gory news to them.
On Monday, September 16, The Chronicle gathered that the Ningo-Prampram
District Police Command had arrested an uncle of Joshua Oman, Ali Kofi
Sewanu, as a suspect in the dastardly act.
Though the police had commenced investigations into the criminal act,
the mother of the deceased, Amuosie Apenti, told The Chronicle at the
police station that sometime in August this year, her son, the deceased,
requested that the extended family give him a parcel of land to embark
upon shifting cultivation.
The farmland he had been cultivating for over a decade had lost
fertility, so the deceased hardly harvested good crop yields, Madam
Amousie explained.
“At the family meeting, my brother [suspect] told my son that if he
made a move to take another farmland from the family, he would wipe him
off from the earth. In fact, the statement was deep, so some of the
family elders reported the matter to the Ningo Traditional Council for
arbitration.
“Arbitration did not travel far, only to hear the devastating death of
my son, his wife and child,” she told the press in the Dangbe language.
Madam Amousie expressed confidence in the police at getting to the
bottom of the matter and allow the law to deal with the actors.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammed Issah Cantona,
Ningo-Prampram District Police Commander, told media personnel that the
police would rely on vital information to arrest all the actors in the
murder.
He said statements had been taken from three family members, “and we
are going to invite more of them to help us in our investigations.”
Meanwhile, the charred remains of the three have been deposited at the
Police Hospital.