The Ngleshie-Amanfro District Court presided over by Her Worship Emelia K. Abruquah has remanded six suspects over the murder of a prisons officer at Iron City in Kasoa in the Central Region.
The suspects have been remanded into the Ankaful Prisons Camp expected to reappear before court on 22nd October, 2024
The six suspects namely; Ebenezer Aidoo Frimpong aged 42, a photographer by profession, Comfort Frimpomaa, 18, Student, Abigail Yaa Kyeiwaa, 32, trader, Esther Efa, 39, seamstress, Naomi Owusu, 38, baker, and Akrama Abraham, 30, also a baker were charged with assault on a public officer, murder of a public officer and aiding and abetment crime to wit murder.
Despite counsel for the accused persons pleading for a bail, the plea was not taken.
State prosecutor, Inspector Maxwel Kwakye pushed for the suspects to be remanded, citing the gravity of the offense and also requested for the suspects to be remanded into prison custody as he told the court that the police cells had no space.
These accused persons are suspected to have participated in the murder of Lance Corporal Gideon Adu-Boakye, a prisons officer, who until his demise was stationed at the Nsawam Prisons Camp on Monday, 30th September, 2024.
The officer who had returned home to spend the weekend with his mother was accused by his assailants to be a thief, while exiting the residence of a friend he went to visit.
By: Akwasi Addo | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
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