Police Accused of Double Standard After Inviting ‘A Plus’

The police administration, has been accused of engaging in double standard, following its invitation to musician turned politician, Kwame Asare Obeng alias A Plus, over his claim that he is in the know of persons who assassinated undercover journalist, Ahmed Hussein Suale.

The invitation yesterday July 15, is to assist the Cold Case Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the police, unravel the circumstances surrounding the murder.

But, while this can pass as a normal and standard practice by the police, some Ghanaians, have found fault with the invitation, citing issues of selectivity by the police administration.

They question why the police will invite Mr Asare Obeng for making the explosive comment over the weekend, but failed to extend same invitation to others, who have made similar disclosures in the past.

They mentioned for example, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central constituency, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, who is on record to have said, he has been informed of the alleged murderer.

The MP, who himself was mentioned as suspect in the case few years ago, claimed he was informed by a senior police officer that they know the person who killed Suale, who was gruesomely murdered in 2019.

Speaking on Adinkra TV based in New York on Monday [May 24, 2021], Mr Agyapong said, the suspect [name withheld] was a resident in the Ashanti Region.

He asked the security agencies to pick the suspect up, as part of their investigations into the case.

During the interview , he dropped the name of the new suspect, whom he alleged the police has been trailing for more than one year.

“He is in Kumasi. His name is Ansu Gyeabour. It is the same police who revealed his name to me and showed me a picture of him”, Mr Agyapong told New York-based Adinkra TV in an interview.

“He killed Ahmed Suale”, he insisted, adding: “It’s been over a year now since the police disclosed that information to me and my name is out there”.

“He is a tall guy”, he said.

Strangely, the Ghana Policed Service, led by the revered Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare till date, has not invited the MP publicly to assist with investigation, as done in the case of A plus.

Mr Agyapong noted that: “Ahmed Suale, when I condemned Anas for a deal they were engaged in, the person who killed him is in the Ashanti Region.”

He alleged that he [Agyapong] was told by police officers who said they did not know how his name [Agyapong] came up, to exercise restraint and stay away from commenting on the case.

Mr Agyapong, said he had to come out, because he could no longer stay away as the police was delaying with their investigations.

He alleged that the mentioning of his name as a suspect, went to the extent that a Congressman in the US reported him, and that when he arrived in Houston [USA] in November 2019, he was stopped at the airport and told he was a suspect in a murder case in Ghana.

The outspoken legislator, said “according to the police, anytime they give the Ashanti Regional Police Command intelligence about the whereabouts of the suspect, he absconds”.

He said he was on a British Airways flight with the police officer, who first informed him about the suspect and that a new commander who had taken over the case, also confirmed the same suspect to him [Agyapong].

“I was in a British Airways flight with the first police commander who told me”, the Chairman of the Defence and Interior Committee revealed.

He said: “The new commander who took over has also confirmed the name of the suspect”.

“The last time I threatened to mention the name in public, he told me to be patient and that they are working on it and had brought some forensic stuff to the United States and would bring out the report soon” but, he noted, “it’s been over four months now since that conversation”.

“I cannot continue getting that embarrassment, humiliation, accusation everywhere when they know the killer”, he said angrily.

He accused the police in Kumasi of being complicit in the investigation.

He said, he was asked not to put out the name of the suspect and the police appealed to him to exercise restraint, since they were yet to complete the forensic report.

Source: Anchorghana.com