The Chronicle can report that the Deputy Volta North Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Antiri-Addo Nicholas Aletso died in his official temporary residence, inside a hotel in Hohoe.
The paper’s finding is contrary to reports circulating on social media suggesting that the deputy regional police boss might have gone to book the said hotel and subsequently went there for pleasure, leading to his untimely death, aged 58.
Our in-depth investigation reveals that the deceased, who was the Divisional Commander of Police at Akropong, in the Eastern Region, was granted permission to travel and visit his wife and children in the United Kingdom (UK).
Just around the same time, he was transferred to Hohoe as the Second-In-Command of the Volta North Regional Police Command. He did travel to see the family.
On Monday March 25, 2024, he reported at his command post as the Deputy Regional Police Commander.
It is the practice that if a senior police officer is transferred to a place and there is no accommodation, the police administration seeks temporary residence for such an officer at any conducive hotel, where he or she resides, until the permanent accommodation is ready.
ACP Nicholas Aletso’s case was no exception, especially when the new region was carved out of the Volta Region, only on December 1, 2022 with its attendant deficiencies in accommodation.
The lot, therefore, fell on this particular hotel (name withheld), which plays host to some visitors to the police command.
Barely 48 hours later, the family made frantic efforts on phone to reach him, with difficulty, and made a report to the authorities.
A team of policemen, led by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr Simon Yevu, was dispatched to the said hotel to ascertain what had gone amiss.
His room number four was not locked, but the senior police officer’s body was found there.
It was removed to the Government Hospital in Hohoe, where he was medically declared dead.
An autopsy was later conducted at the Police Hospital in Accra.
