‘I owe him so I killed him’

A 25-year-old tailor-apprentice in Sewua, a town in the Ashanti Region, has been arrested over the murder of a 22-year-old second-year Biological Sciences student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

According to police reports, the murder suspect, Emmanuel Boateng, took a loan from the student and when it was time for him to pay back the loan amount; he lured the innocent student into a bush and killed him by using a stick to hit his head and neck several times.

When Emmanuel Boateng was double sure he student was dead, threw the murder weapon away, stole the mobile phone from the pocket of his dead victim and went home to live his life happily as if nothing ever happened.

The name of the deceased has been given as Kwaku Adu Gyamfi and the incident was said to have happened at Sewua in the Ashanti Region over the weekend, precisely on Friday April 22, 2022.

Confirmation

Confirming the incident to Graphic Online, the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Godwin Ahianyo said at around 5:30 pm on 22 April 2022, the police in Feyiase had information that a body was lying in a bush at Sewua.

He said the police together with the assembly member of the area and some traditional leaders proceeded to the scene where a male adult dressed in a red T-shirt and blue trousers was found.

He was identified as Gyamfi, a level 200 student of KNUST, who was lying dead.

He said an inspection conducted on the body revealed a swollen neck and blood oozing from the nostrils and a stick suspected to have been used to commit the crime lying about 200 meters away from the body.

Preliminary Investigation

According to the police, a preliminary investigation indicated that at around 9am same day, a friend by name Emmanuel Boateng, visited the deceased at his house and they both went out together.

However, the deceased did not return until his body was found later in the bush.

Alleged Confession

Ahianyo alleged that the suspect later told the police during interrogation that he owed the deceased some money which he was demanding to enable him prepare for school.

However, Ahianyo said the suspect alleged that because he was unable to raise the money, he lured the deceased to the area of the incident under the pretext of going to show him a plot his mother was developing.

According to the police, when they got to the area, the suspect asked the deceased to sit and wait for him while he attended to nature’s call.

It was while the deceased was sitting down waiting for him that Boateng allegedly hit him with the stick on the neck and took his mobile phone away.

The phone has since been retrieved by the police from the suspect’s room and the body deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital morgue.