Update: JB Danquah’s ‘killer’ arrested

Credible information reaching citifmonline.com says the Accra Regional Police Command has arrested a man suspected to have killed the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu. Sources at the command who confirmed the arrest, the alleged killer was nabbed in an operation led by the Regional Commander, COP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare. The operation begun last night and ended Thursday dawn. Details of how the arrest and the identity of the suspect are unknown for now. The police are currently interrogating the suspect to ascertain whether he acted independently or was contracted to kill. Investigations into the gruesome killing of the MP began on Tuesday morning, after his demise at dawn that same day.

Efforts to capture the suspect intensified after the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) was asked to take over the investigations. A Member of Parliament on the minority side according to police sources, was also instrumental in the arrest of the suspect. The arrest comes a day after five of the six persons who were invited for questioning over the killing were discharged.

As at Wednesday evening, the police was only holding the late MP’s private security guard, who they said had more questions to answer. The MP was killed by unknown assailants at his residence at Shiashi in Accra, where he lived with his family. Some neighbours of the late MP said they heard about a struggle between the MP and his attackers, which forced them out of their homes only to find out that he had been killed. They claimed to have seen a ladder behind the late MP’s bedroom, which they suspect was used by the assailants to access his room where he was killed and left in a pool of blood. According to them, they saw a man run out of the house but he could not use the main entrance because they had then called in the police who were stationed at the gate waiting to enter.