The brutal killing of the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu, yesterday dawn has heightened the general sense of insecurity in the country following the rising spate of such killings in recent times.
Views expressed by Ghanaians on various radio and television programmes during phone-in segments paint a picture of a nation gripped with fear.
Many of the callers were of the view that if a Member of Parliament could be killed in cold blood, then the ordinary Ghanaian is not safe.
They recalled some of the people who have been murdered recently: Nana Kwaku Dwoma Ankoana, chief of Seikwa in the Tain District of the Brong Ahafo Region, who was shot; Rosemond Nyampong, a 32-year-old Stanbic Bank worker, who was killed at Baatsonaa in Accra; Nii Ayittey Noryatse, chief of Joma, near Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region; and Fennec Okyere, manager of musician Kwaw Kesse, who was shot on the Spintex Road; and Francis Thomas Anderson, a 29-year-old Graphic Designer at E-volution International, who was killed at Kwashieman in Accra.
The others are 26-year-old vulcaniser Rashid Mustapha, whose body was found at the Aboabo Forest in Tamale; and 29-year-old network engineer Nazira Alhassan, who was shot several times in Tamale by an unidentified assailant at his residence.
5 Arrested in J.B. Danquah’s killing
Yesterday, the police arrested five persons - two women and three men - to assist in investigations into the killing of J.B. Danquah.
The five include a private security guard who was in the house on the day of the incident.
The others are all residents of the house, but the police did not give further details about their identity.
The police say they cannot immediately confirm whether the attackers were robbers or they were just there to kill the man.
He was found lying in a pool of blood at dawn yesterday with multiple stab wounds.
The Public Relation Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, ASP Effia Tenge, stated that a distress call was placed from some residents to the police.
When the police rushed to the scene, the victim was found lying in a pool of blood, and was immediately rushed to the Police Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
ASP Tenge seized the opportunity to appeal to the public to help them with any relevant information to assist them give closure to his family.
Anyone with any relevant information should call the police on 024 2337477 and 020 816648.
In a related development, the Accra Regional Police Commander, COP George Akuffo Dampare, called on the Speaker of Parliament to formally inform him and the House about the death of the Abuakwa MP.
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