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Police arrest suspects in PM's murder
Atronie (B/A), April 10, GNA - The Brong-Ahafo Regional
Police Command has arrested 16 youth suspected to have
murdered Mr. Anthony Yeboah Boateng, an administrator of the
Goaso Government Hospital, on Easter Sunday at Atronie in
the Sunyani municipality.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Lartey Lawson told the
Ghana News Agency on Tuesday the police on Monday mounted a
barrier on the road to Atronie following the incident and a
check in some vehicles led to the arrest of the suspects.
The suspects are all residents of the town but had bolted
after the incident.
The deceased, who was the Presiding Member of the Asunafo
North District Assembly, was murdered by some unidentified
youth at Atronie near the police station and adjacent to the
chief's palace.
An eyewitness told the GNA that the late Mr. Boateng, his
wife and a Catholic reverend sister were conveying the body
of his aunt in his private car from Sunyani to the Goaso
government hospital.
On reaching Atronie at about 2100 hours the assailants had
barricaded the road for a street jam to celebrate the Easter
festivities.
The eyewitness said the youth ordered the deceased, who was
driving, to stop which he did and when they went near the
vehicle they saw the dead body in the car and suspected him
to be a serial killer.
"When Mr. Boateng came out from the vehicle to explain to
the angry youth they attacked him with stones and other
offensive weapons killing him instantly in the presence of
the wife and the reverend sister who looked on helplessly",
the eyewitness said.
The policeman on duty at the police station went in and
attempted to rescue the deceased but the youth assaulted
him.
He whisked the deceased's wife and the reverend sister to
the safety of the station before rushing to a near by clinic
where he was treated and discharged.
When members of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC)
visited the town most residents, particularly the youth, had
deserted the town leaving only children and the aged.
Mr. Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Regional Minister and Chairman
of the REGSEC, condemned the act and consoled the family of
the deceased.
He gave the assurance that REGSEC would thoroughly
investigate the case to bring the perpetrators to face the
full rigours of the law.
The Regional Minister appealed to the public to provide the
police with information for the arrest of the assailants.
The people of Atronie experienced serial killings early this
year as a result of which the chief of the town ordered all
non-citizens to leave the town.
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Social Murder Arrest 2 datelined Techiman
In another development, Mr Amo, a 27-year-old science and
mathematics teacher of the Seventh Day Adventist Junior
Secondary School at Offuman in Techiman Municipality was on
Tuesday stabbed to death by a friend.
Mr. Emmanuel Atodra Kyere, Assembly Member for Dankwaso
electoral area, told the GNA the teacher had an argument
with his friend, Washington Kwame Anim, unemployed, over a
wrist watch during which Anim stabbed him in the ribs.
The teacher was taken to the Offuman Health Centre but was
transferred to the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman where he
died shortly on arrival.
The assembly member said Anim had absconded and the
community had mounted an intensive search for him.
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