The key suspect’s vehicle impounded by the police
The
police have intensified their search for the man suspected to be privy to the
death of Otumfuo’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor.
The
popular chief was found gruesomely murdered last week in his black Land Cruiser
on the outskirts of Ejura in the Ashanti Region, throwing residents of Kumasi into
a state of shock.
Person of Interest
The police
have already declared that the main person of interest in the case is one Sadat
Mohammed, 38, popularly called Alhaji or Mallam, who is married to a queen mother
in Kumasi.
Sources
at the Ashanti Regional Police Command have said since the unfortunate murder
of the chief, the Alhaji’s phones have been switched off and cannot be reached.
Benin & Mali
The
Alhaji is said to have links in Benin and Mali but there is no official
information that he has left Ghana, even though the police said he and his wife
cannot be found in Kumasi.
Investigations
made by the police so far, had indicated that Alhaji was a close friend of the
late traditional leader.
The
Asamponhene, according to the police, visited Alhaji in his house at Odeneho Kwadaso
on Sunday morning. Later, the two friends travelled together on that same day.
Some
hours later, the body of the chief was found in his black Land Cruiser vehicle
at Ebuom on the main Ejura-Nkoranza highway in the Ashanti Region.
The
police gathered that Alhaji then vanished with his wife in a taxi, even though
they own a fleet of cars.
Alhaji’s Residence
After
several attempts to locate Alhaji had proved futile, the police stormed the
house again and towed away Alhaji’s white Land Cruiser car to the police
headquarters in Kumasi.
DAILY GUIDE has gathered that some people spotted Alhaji’s white Land Cruiser car
closely following Asamponhene’s black Land Cruiser around Ejura on Sunday
afternoon.
The white
Land Cruiser is not yet registered even though the provisional number plate
shows that it was cleared from the Tema Port.
Supposed Murder Scene
The
Asamponhene was found dead in his Land Cruiser vehicle with registration
number GC 7212-16, on the outskirts of Ejura on Sunday August 18, 2019 and
initial reports had suggested he died through an accident.
But top police investigators that
stormed the accident scene at Ebuom on the main Ejura-Nkoranza highway then
ruled out the possibility of the vehicle getting involved in an accident.
Deleting Evidence
Police
investigators have said they are not ruling out the fact that the killer tried
to burn the chief and his Land Cruiser vehicle in order to cover up his illegal
action.
A gallon,
containing petrol and matches (two objects usually used to start a fire), were
found at the scene where the chief’s body was found.
Prospective Witness
A prospective
witness in the case has told the police that the prominent chief left the house
on Sunday in Kumasi and said he was going to visit someone in one of the
suburbs also in Kumasi and within few hours news came in that his body had been
found at Ejura.
On the
scene where the body was found, there were blood stains in the Land Cruiser which
was not fresh, suggesting the body had been dumped there.
They also disclosed that the vehicle’s front windscreen had developed visible cracks, and checks by fire experts indicated that the massive heat, produced by the fire, forced the windscreen to crack.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
