{"id":685077,"date":"2019-08-19T06:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>Police in the Ashanti Region have begun investigations into circumstances that led to the death of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene, Nana Kwadwo Afordour.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Nana Kwadwo Afordour was found in his vehicle on Sunday 18th August, 2019 at ab"},"modified":"2019-08-19T06:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:20:24","slug":"police-investigate-murder-of-otumfuos-asamponhene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/19\/police-investigate-murder-of-otumfuos-asamponhene\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate murder of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police in the Ashanti Region have begun investigations into circumstances that led to the death of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene, Nana Kwadwo Afordour.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Nana Kwadwo Afordour was found in his vehicle on Sunday 18th August, 2019 at about 4: 30pm near Ebuom on the Ejura \u2013 Nkoranza Highway.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is believed the late chief was murdered and his body deposited at the back seat of his Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle and abandoned at the outskirts of the village,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The police statement said they are currently looking into the case and are \u201cworking earnestly to get the perpetrators arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also urged the public to assist with information through police hotlines: MTN and Vodafone toll-free lines 18555 and all networks on 191 or 0299202240.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, known as Nana Kwadwo Afordour was said to have been attacked by some unknown assailants whilst he was travelling on the Ejura-Nkoranza road on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the deceased has been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was also the owner of a popular X 5 pub in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Below is the full statement from the police:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543166\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/police-statement-on-asamponhenes-death.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"841\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Ashanti Region have begun investigations into circumstances that led to the death of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene, Nana Kwadwo Afordour. The body of Nana Kwadwo Afordour was found in his vehicle on Sunday 18th August, 2019 at about 4: 30pm near Ebuom on the Ejura \u2013 Nkoranza Highway. \u201cIt is believed the late chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police investigate murder of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/19\/police-investigate-murder-of-otumfuos-asamponhene\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police investigate murder of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Police in the Ashanti Region have begun investigations into circumstances that led to the death of Otumfuo\u2019s Asamponhene, Nana Kwadwo Afordour. 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