{"id":690456,"date":"2019-08-24T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>REPORTS THAT the killers of\nAsamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor, tried to burn the chief and his Land Cruiser\nvehicle in order to cover up their illegal action are unravelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>DAILY GUIDE\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> strenuous c"},"modified":"2019-08-24T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:30:06","slug":"otumfuos-chief-killers-had-matches-and-petrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/24\/otumfuos-chief-killers-had-matches-and-petrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Otumfuo\u2019s Chief \u2018Killers\u2019 Had Matches And Petrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>REPORTS THAT the killers of<br \/>\nAsamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor, tried to burn the chief and his Land Cruiser<br \/>\nvehicle in order to cover up their illegal action are unravelling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>DAILY GUIDE\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> strenuous checks have revealed that a gallon,<br \/>\ncontaining petrol and matches (two objects usually used to start a fire), was<br \/>\nfound at the scene where the chief\u2019s body was dumped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Huge Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A huge rock and a small fire extinguisher were also<br \/>\nfound at the scene by some top police investigators from Kumasi, who visited<br \/>\nthe scene on Monday afternoon to pick some possible leads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Killed &amp; Dumped<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Already, the police are looking at the possibilities<br \/>\nthat the chief was gruesomely killed in Kumasi and his body dumped on the<br \/>\noutskirts of Ejura, which is quite far from Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>A prospective witness in the case has told the police<br \/>\nthat the prominent chief left the house on Sunday in Kumasi and said he was<br \/>\ngoing to visit someone in one of the suburbs also in Kumasi and within few<br \/>\nhours news came in that his body had been found at Ejura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Fresh Blood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blood stains found in the Land Cruiser vehicle on<br \/>\nSunday evening where the chief lied motionless were not fresh, suggesting the<br \/>\nbody had been dumped there.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the body was concealed in between the<br \/>\nfront and the back seats of the car and added that it could have been difficult<br \/>\nfor anybody including the police to detect it at a checkpoint if indeed he was<br \/>\nkilled in Kumasi and transported to Ejura.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, there are reports that the killers tried to<br \/>\nset the chief and his car on fire to delete evidence but the fire was not<br \/>\nextensive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emerging Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the seat area of the driver of the<br \/>\nLand Cruiser was partly burnt and the police suspect the killers used the<br \/>\nmatches and petrol to start the fire to delete possible traces.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations indicated that the assailants<br \/>\nappeared to have tried to use the huge rock to smash the vehicle to make it<br \/>\nseem the chief had died through a car accident.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the small fire extinguisher found at the<br \/>\nscene had been used by the church members who helped put off the fire which had<br \/>\njust started.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the attempt to burn the body of the chief<br \/>\nand the Land Cruiser gives credence to suspicion that the chief was killed at a<br \/>\ndifferent location and the body was moved in his car to the outskirts of Ejura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alhaji<\/strong> <strong>Wanted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ashanti Regional Police Command has already declared<br \/>\none Sadat Mohammed, 38, aka Alhaji, wanted over the murder of the Asamponhene.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, investigations made by them so far<br \/>\nindicate that Alhaji, who was a close friend of the late traditional leader,<br \/>\nmight have a hand in the murder case.<\/p>\n<p>The Asamponghene, according to the police, was said to<br \/>\nhave visited Alhaji in his house at Odeneho Kwadaso on Sunday morning. Later, the<br \/>\ntwo friends travelled together on that same day.<\/p>\n<p>Some hours later, the body of the chief was found in his<br \/>\nblack Land Cruiser vehicle at Ebuom on the main Ejura-Nkoranza highway in the<br \/>\nAshanti Region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alhaji\u2019s Car Seized<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Checks indicated that the police were indeed convinced<br \/>\nthat Alhaji masterminded the murder of the chief, who was stabbed several times<br \/>\nto death.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggested that a group of police investigators<br \/>\nstormed the house of Alhaji at Odeneho Kwadaso on Sunday evening, few hours<br \/>\nafter the body of the chief was found.<\/p>\n<p>It was then gathered that Alhaji, who is married to a<br \/>\nprominent queen mother in one of the communities in Kumasi, had vanished with his<br \/>\nwife in a taxi, even though they own a fleet of cars.<\/p>\n<p>After several attempts to locate Alhaji had proved<br \/>\nfutile, the police stormed the house again and towed away Alhaji\u2019s white Land Cruiser<br \/>\ncar to the police headquarters in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em> has gathered that some<br \/>\npeople spotted Alhaji\u2019s white Land Cruiser car closely following Asamponhene\u2019s<br \/>\nblack Land Cruiser around Ejura on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Few hours later, his body was found motionless in his<br \/>\nLand Cruiser vehicle at Ebuom on the Ejura-Nkoranza highway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asamponhene Killed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asamponghene, who lived at Krofrom in Kumasi had<br \/>\ntold his wife on Sunday morning that he was visiting a friend, who also lived<br \/>\nin another suburb of Kumasi, but he was not found alive again. The late chief<br \/>\nwas said to have left his house around 9:30 am and nothing was heard from him<br \/>\nagain.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2 pm that same day, he was found dead in his car<br \/>\nat Ebuom on the Ejura-Nkoranza road.<\/p>\n<p>There multiple wounds on his neck, rib and other parts<br \/>\nof his body which clearly have strong indication that he was murdered by some<br \/>\npeople that also tried to burn him and his vehicle to cover their bad action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORTS THAT the killers of Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor, tried to burn the chief and his Land Cruiser vehicle in order to cover up their illegal action are unravelling. 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