Accused persons in Mankessim murder allegedly confess to killing 3 more people

Big revelations as accused persons in Mankessim murder allegedly confess to killing three more people.

Accused parties in the continuing inquiries into the murder of the nursing student from Mankessim reportedly admitted to the deaths of three more victims.
On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered outside the home of the Tufuhen of Mankessim, Christopher Ekow Quansah, and self-styled priest Michael Darko, who are accused of murdering Georgina Asor Botchwey.

Just after the Mankessim Lorry Station and Pacific Fuel Station, a police squad lead by the Tufuhen was questioning further suspects while Darko apparently confessed to the murders of three additional persons. As the two went by, cars stopped in the middle of the road to gaze at them while yelling insults at them.

A source informed the GNA that the two suspects had admitted to killing a man and two women and had taken the police team to the different  where the crimes were committed on Thursday afternoon.

According to the witness, the accused first led the team to the Tufohen’s home in Mankessim and then to Akwakrom, which is close to Mankessim, where they committed their crimes.

The police conducted a comprehensive search of the rooms and removed important records and data for future investigation.

Once more in Mankessim, the two reportedly lured a male instructor to a place where he was shot and died instantaneously, as well as having his toes severed, before taking the police team there.

The police were also escorted to a spot in the Ekumfi District where it is claimed that a female trader was shot, murdered, and buried beneath a bridge.

The crew also went to the suspected murder scene at Batanya in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamakese District. The victim was a young woman from Kumasi.

In order to get her to fly to Holland, it appears that the two claimed to be travel agents and made a travel document.

The two reportedly admitted to killing the woman after meeting her at Batanyaa on the Cape Coast-Assin Fosu Highway.

The corpse of the dead was recognised by the deceased’s relatives, who were present at the morgue in Cape Coast on Thursday afternoon.

A 26-year-old mason was detained in Mankessim in connection with the suspected murder by a crack team of police officers from the Central Regional Command under the direction of the accused.

Unnamed sources told the Ghana News Agency that they observed the third suspect being taken away and identified him as Abbey, Quansah’s brother-in-law.

According to the reports, Quansah admitted hiring Esi Akyere’s spouse to dig the trench at his Mankessim homes.

After the information became public, the police hurried to the neighbourhood and, with the chiefs’ support, detained Abbey, who originally denied the deed but eventually acknowledged digging the trench for GH50.

Abbey, who is also one of the community’s leaders for the Youth Volunteer Group, claims that the Tufohen gave him the agreed-upon sum in two payments after the job in the amounts of GH$20 and GH$30.

The leaders gathered the whole Youth Volunteer Group and pressured them to confess whether they were involved in the murder case after being perplexed by the disclosure of the suspect, according to the sources, but they all denied any knowledge of it.

According to the sources, police officers had been stationed at the abandoned family home of the Tufohen where two dugout holes had been discovered in two disorganised, filthy separate rooms, and patrols had been stepped up.

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“We are appealing to the police to interrogate his fetish priest in the community who the Tufohen liked so much and took cover prior to his arrest,” Nana Akwa pleaded.

Nana Akwa, who is also a legal practitioner, wondered how the Tufohen dug the craters containing numerous bottles and dead materials without the knowledge of the Ebusuapanyin.

“Since the arrest of the Tufohen, all attempts to reach his Ebusuapanyin, who was always in the community, has not been successful. There is no way anyone can dig out two pits in two separate rooms in a family house without the knowledge of the Ebusuapanyin. This is incomprehensible.

“More so, prior to the arrest of the Tufohen, his Ebusuapanyin was billed to meet the Chief and elders on some teething community issues, but he cannot be found. And why is he not answering our calls,” the Chief revealed.