CID abandons Murder Docket

A Police crime investigator (CID) Oppong, stationed at the Police Headquarters who sent a docket to the Attorney Generals Department for study and recommendations has abandoned the docket at the AG’s Department.

Initially, the docket which contained information about the murder of Kwadwo Boakye by one Justice Quaye Frimpong was said to have been missing at the Attorney Generals Department by the prosecutor handling the case and the CID .

However , subsequent investigations conducted by the New Crusading Guide with the assistance of the Attorney Generals Department led to the discovery of , the Docket with number CC/23/12 in the database of the Attorney General.

The procedure according to the officer in charge of data at the AG’S department is that dockets are only released to police investigators in charge of cases brought there and demanded that CID Oppong be informed to go for the docket.

CID Oppong however refused to pick his phone when he was called. This was followed by a text message informing him about the discovery of the docket and the need to retrieve it but he failed to reply. He however called the brother of the deceased to ask him why he gave his (CID’S) number to this reporter and that he has no interest in the case and cannot go for the docket.

The brother of the deceased, Robert Bosompim is therefore appealing to the Inspector General of Police, Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the Chief Justice to initiate investigations into the case and find out why the CID and the prosecutor have abandoned the docket and their lack of interest in handling a sensitive case of murder.

“I don’t want to believe they have taken money from some interested parties but their behavior in handling the case are gearing towards that and I want all stakeholders for the sake of justice in this country to help us get to the bottom of this case” stated Robert Bosompim, brother of the deceased”.

Below is what The New Crusading GUIDE published two weeks ago on the same story.

Investigations conducted by the New Crusading Guide indicate that a docket with information about the murder of one Kwadwo Boakye which was sent to the Attorney General’s department for further advice is missing.

The prosecutor handling the case at the Circuit court one who mentioned his name as clement in an interview with the New Crusading Guide said he presented the docket to the Attorney Generals Department in 2012 for further recommendation but the docket has since disappeared. I have tried my best to get the docket and present it to the sitting judge for further proceedings but it has been fruitless. We have been at the AG’s office on several occasions but they don’t seem to remember the exact case and cannot find the docket. They can’t find it”, he told this reporter in a telephone conversation.

He further directed the reporter to contact one CID Agyapong at the CID headquarters for further information on the docket but Agyapong refused to pick his phone when he was called. When the reporter went to the Police headquarters in search of him he was said to have left the office.

Usually, accused persons in murder cases are not granted bail until the Police have concluded their investigation. However, in this particular case Quaye Frimpong, the accused, has been released from Police custody. According to the prosecutor, lawyers for the accused person went to the High court to seek bail after several; failed attempts at the Accra Circuit court one.

According to the prosecutor, the deceased and the accused person were friends until a scuffle ensued between them on the 30th of October 2011. “In the course of the scuffle, Quaye Frimpong threatened the he is going to use his Motorbike to kill the deceased. Kwadwo Boakye as a result decided to report the case to the Senase Police. On his way to the Police station Quaye Frempong, chased Boakye with a motorbike and knocked him down injuring him severely in the process. Kwadwo Boakye was pronounced dead shortly after admission at the St Dominic Hospital at Akwatia. The case was thereafter reported to the Akyem Senase Police by the family of the deceased and Quaye Frimpong was subsequently arrested and charged with murder He was remanded in Police custody and subsequently released after the burial of the deceased.

Meanwhile a brother of the deceased, Mr Robert Bosompem has informed the New Crusading Guide in an interview that he does not believe the docket is missing.. According to him, some people at the AG’s Department have been influenced by some powers to hide the docket “to delay and deny us Justice”. “We have therefore written a petition to the minister of Justice and the inspector General of Police to order investigations into the matter, he stated. The deceased Kwadwo Boakye was alleged to have been buried without postmortem