Police arrest murder suspects

Aflao (V/R), Feb. 9, GNA- Five people have been arrested by the Aflao Police for their alleged involvement in the ritual murder of one Kofi Kuley Amadu, 30 of Davorkope, near Denu, whose body they dumped into the sea.

The five, all fishermen, belong to a fishing group owned by one Sodzedo at Adina.

Some others, said to be chief suspects in the crime are on the run. They include are Anator Akligo, Eli Ahiati, and Togbui Grunitzky. An angry mob from the area last week vandalised the fetish shrine belonging to Sodzedo at Adina and retrieved an object wrapped in calico soaked with blood and locked with 23 padlocks all round which they believed contained the jaws of the deceased.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Baba Moro, the district crime officer told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the weekend that on December 30, last year, the body of a male adult in an advanced stage of decomposition, was washed ashore at Adina and the Assemblyman for the area, Mr Gorsh Adakpo made a report to the Police.

He said the Police who initially suspected no foul play and took it as a case of drowning, buried the body at Adina the same day after the necessary formalities.

ASP Moro said on January 20, this year, one Davor Kpeglo of Davorkope complained to Togbe Davor, the chief of Adafienu that he believed the body washed ashore was his grandson, Amadu who left the house during the Christmas festivities and failed to return.

He said Kpeglo later reported to the Police that he had a hint that Sodzedo and his fishing group murdered Amadu for ritual purposes and dumped the body into the sea.

ASP Moro said a pathologist examined the contents of the blood soaked in calico to determine whether it contained a human jaw as well as exhume the body for examination.