This weekend marks exactly five years when Mrs Josephine Asante was murdered in cold blood in her home at the Emefs Hillview Estates, near Afienya, in the Ningo Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region.
Intensive police investigation led to the apprehension of a number of suspects, some of who are assisting the inquisition.
However, the deceased’s husband, Mr Kwame Asante, has stated his disappointment in the system. He made the revelation in an exclusive interview with The Chronicle yesterday.
As to the gravity of disappointment, the retired Chartered Accountant, who is yet to recover from the shock of his wife’s gruesome murder, said even though he has heard some arrests have been made, no progress has practically been made so far.
According to him, on a number of occasions, he tried to seek the attention of the authorities but was denied access.
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 Mrs Josephine Asante, then Marketing and Public Affairs Manager at Tema Port, supervised a senior staff end of year get-together at the GPHA TOWERS, near the Tema port. She returned home after midnight.
In the morning of Sunday, January 13, 2019 she was found in her bedroom murdered.
The Tema Regional Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who were in charge of the case, immediately apprehended two persons, her official driver, Amos Apeku and her houseboy, Christian Agyei and put them before the Tema District Court.
The Homicide Unit at the CID Headquarters took over the investigation until late 2021 when the newly formed Cold Case Unit (CCU) inherited the docket and continued with the pursuit of the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
On February 25, 2023, the District Court discharged the two accused persons following an advice from the Attorney General’s Office to the Prosecution, for the charges preferred against them to be dropped.
Personnel from the CCU, present at the court, immediately rearrested them to further enhance the investigation.
On March 31, 2023 and April 13, 2023 Kwabena Boateng, a former driver at GPHA and his friend, Dominic Owusu, were respectively arrested.
During the investigation, police detected that Kwabena Boateng had gone to assume the name Richard Kwabena Kwakye.
Police enquiry later led to the arrest of Frederick Owusu Oppong, aka Kojo Owusu, a cousin of suspect Kwabena Boateng.
The official driver and houseboy have since been granted Police enquiry bail and are assisting with the process.
Meanwhile, snippets of information available to The Chronicle indicate that, the police who are leaving no stone unturned have concluded their investigation and are only waiting for a report of forensic analysis from evidence in its possession.
A dependable highly placed source who preferred anonymity intimated to this reporter that, from the look of things, the docket is Attorney General’s Office bound, for evidence of the crime available to the hardworking detectives is overwhelming enough to warrant the prosecution of the case.
Stay tuned.
