Police Informant Escapes Assassination Attempt

By Kingsley Mawuli Dogbey**

The Assembly Member for Adeheta electoral area in the Akatsi District of the Volta Region, has come under what he considers a planned attack to eliminate him in order to prevent him from giving information to the Akatsi police about the recent murder of a madman allegedly for ritual purposes.

The attack has however claimed the life of Mr. Daniel Adaku, wife, Favour Nyamedi, 24, who died with a three month old pregnancy, with his three-year –old son sustaining serious injuries.

Mr. Adaku, who was scheduled to lead the police last Friday to a suspected hide-out of Moses Fogbe aka Palango, one of the murder suspects, was involved in an accident on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, two days to the agreed date.

Although the Akatsi Police refused to link the accident to the assemblyman’s expose on the ritual murder, he insists he has become a target for those behind the murder of the madman hence needs police protection while the case is pursued and the perpetrators brought to book.

It would be recalled that The Herald on Monday, May 10, this year reported on a ritual killing at Akatsi in which four persons, including a woman, were apprehended by the police for allegedly murdering and beheading a 65- year-old mentally deranged man, Gbevitor Kofi Husunukpi, on the Akatsi-Wute road.

According to the assemblyman, he and his family were knocked down on his motorbike on that Wednesday at about 6pm while coming from the deceased’s village.

The ironic situation according to Mr. Adaku, was that the driver of the Hyundai Grace with registration number GW 8150 V, called Ahia, abandoned the vehicle later at Ziope, and has since absconded without reporting the incident to the police.

The driver also comes from Agornikope, near Sremanu where Agozi, one of the suspects alleged to have sent home a parcel containing a human head with one other person by Moses Fogbe, alias Palango, on the run, also hails. The assemblyman believes it was a plot to deliberately eliminate him.

He said, on-lookers, including his brothers, went and reported the incident to the owner of the car Mr. Holy Agbemanya, who in turn called the driver on phone, and told them that the driver had said he was not going to return to the town as a result of the incident.

Meanwhile information reaching The Herald indicates that Moses Fogbe, has moved from his former Senziri base in Nzemaland where the Assemblyman was supposed to lead the police, to Ainyinase near Vokano, the capital of Nzema in the Ellembele District of Western Region.

In the substantive case, the Akatsi District Magistrate Court presided over by his Lordship, Francis A. Ana Ann, last week Friday remanded the suspects in prison custody to help the police with their investigations.