2 Extra Arrested Over GPHA Supervisor Homicide

In a shocking flip of occasions, police have rearrested two suspects who have been beforehand arrested and freed in reference to the homicide of Josephine Asante Tandoh, a senior workers of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA).

The 2 suspects, Dominic Owusu and Christian Adjei, who have been the motive force and houseboy of the late Josephine Asante respectively, have been taken into police custody alongside two different suspects – Richard Kwabena Kwakye and Frederick Owusu Oppong who have been arrested final month.

Dominic and Christian have been discharged by the courtroom final yr following the recommendation by the Workplace of the Legal professional Normal till their newest arrest.

All 4 accused individuals have been remanded in police custody for one more two weeks by the TDC Justice of the Peace Courtroom in Tema.

Nevertheless, the lawyer for 2 of the accused individuals, who’re at the moment in police custody, has filed an utility for bail on the Tema Excessive Courtroom. The applying for bail pending trial shall be heard on Monday, June 19, 2023.

Truth of the case, in line with police are that suspects, Richard Kwabena Kwakye, 37-year-old former GPHA driver, and Frederick Owusu, a 51-year-old taxi driver, have been apprehended after fleeing to Burkina Faso following the incident on January 13, 2019.

The suspects laid ambush for the sufferer round her residence at block E, EMEF Property on the Afienya highway, the place she resided collectively together with her husband and their 12-year son.

The sufferer had attended a get-together social gathering organised by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority on the senior workers membership home at Tema Group Six and returning house, when the suspects adopted her car into the compound and entered her condominium earlier than stabbing and strangling her to dying.

At about 3:30am that Sunday, the home boy and the deceased’s son heard some uncommon sound on the compound and due to this fact carried out a search however didn’t discover something. They due to this fact retired to mattress.

Nevertheless, the home boy claimed he noticed a male determine carrying a black t-shirt and a denims operating via the lounge and escaped via the principle gate.

At about 8:30am on Sunday, January 13, 2019, the home boy who was later arrested and the son tried opening Mrs Asante’s door however discovered it locked and due to this fact referred to as the motive force.

The driving force of the sufferer, in line with the police, discovered the keys to the home on the entrance of the gate when he went there upon receiving the decision and used identical to open the deceased’s door and located her in a pool of blood mendacity supine.

Investigators who have been assigned to the case after the criticism was lodged, collected semen present in her, finger prints and different proof on the crime scene.

Richard Kwabena Kwakye has since confessed to the crime and named Dominic Owusu as his confederate, however the latter has allegedly denied any involvement.

Investigations are nonetheless ongoing to find out the motive behind the homicide, leaving GPHA shocked and saddened by the lack of certainly one of their helpful staff, the Advertising and Public Relations Supervisor of the Authority.

The homicide of Josephine Asante gripped the nation and raised issues concerning the security and safety of outstanding people in Ghana.
The GPHA expressed unhappiness over the homicide of their senior workers and has referred to as on the police to make sure that the perpetrators of this heinous crime have been dropped at justice.

The arrest of those suspects is seen as a constructive step in direction of fixing the homicide case. The police have assured the general public that they’re doing every little thing of their energy to deliver these accountable to justice.

By Vincent Kubi

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