Look into this murder case again - Attorney General urged

Accra, Aug. 20, GNA - The Namon Royal Family of Paga in the Upper East Region is asking the Attorney-General to reopen a murder case in which former Border Guard, Corporal Dan Owusu Achiaw stationed at Paga allegedly murdered a family member.

The family is also appealing to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to rescind his decision to install Mr Owusu Achiaw as a chief of Domi-Kaniago in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region because of his alleged involvement in the case.

However, the Asantehene said when he asked the police in Kumasi to look into the case again they reported back that the suspect is not the same Dan Owusu Achiaw that he wants to install as a chief. "The Namon family of Paga is absolutely sure that the Dan Owusu of the Paga murder case is the same Dan Owusu who is to be made a chief by Otumfuo," Mr Francis Namon Jnr, a member of the Namon Royal Family, told a press conference in Accra on Wednesday.

"The visible signs on his face and his facial outlook are nothing but the same Dan Owusu we know," he added. Mr Namon said in January 1984, Charles Abompaga Namon, the deceased, who was a 30 year-old second hand spare parts dealer at Paga, was stabbed in the belly by Corporal Owusu Achiaw during a scuffle between him (Charles Namon) and the suspect's wife at a film show. He said the case was reported to the Police at Paga and it was transferred to Navrongo Magistrate's Court. "A few months later we got to know that the suspects, Dan Owusu and one Ali Ibrahim, his accomplice, had run away from Paga to Burkina Faso."

He said in May this year the Namon family got to know that Mr Owusu Achiaw was back in the country and was about to be installed a chief by Otumfuo.

His family, he said, then wrote a petition to the Attorney General for the reopening of the case and a delegation sent to the Asantehene to look into the matter again. 20 Aug. 08