Akwasi Agyeman Meets Police

Posted: Daily Guide |Thursday, 03 February 2011
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By Charles Takyi-Boadu
The former Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Nana Akwasi Agyeman, who is at the centre of a raging controversy over his alleged abduction and molestation of 11-year old Aaron Okyem Djan, a form one pupil of the University Primary in Kumasi, yesterday finally met the police.

This was after he had failed to honour several invitations extended to him by the police after they had gone to his Dichemso residence to invite him for interrogation.

At the time of going to press yesterday, credible sources said Nana Akwasi Agyeman had reported at the Tafo/Pankrono police station to give his statement to avoid being dragged to court this morning since the police were planning to go and serve him with a criminal summons for him to appear in court.

The police were said to have earlier in the day detailed some personnel to go and invite him but the former Mayor fondly called ‘Okumkom,’ was said to be having his meal and promised the police that he would be at the station later.

But that was not meant to be since he failed to show up at the police station several hours after the officers had left his house.

The source told DAILY GUIDE that when phone calls were put through to him, Akwasi Agyeman told the police officers he was on his way to the station and that he was stuck in a traffic jam.

He was said to have promised to be with them in no time.

Earlier in the day when our regional reporters contacted the Tafo/Pakrono Divisional Crime Officer, Boakye Ansah on phone, he retorted “Master, all that I can tell you is that the case is still under investigation.”

Pressed further to know whether the police had taken the caution statement of the former Mayor on the issue, the Divisional Crime Officer, who wondered how our reporters got his number insisted, “I am saying that the case is still under investigation” after which he dropped the line.

Later in the evening, the Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Victor Adusa Poku, who seemed frustrated by Akwasi Agyeman’s attitude, was said to have called and informed his superiors at the Regional command about the former Mayor’s foot-dragging.

The superior police officers at the Regional command were then said to have asked the criminal summons and the docket of the case to be sent to them.

Not long after that, around 6:30pm, Nana Akwasi Agyeman was said to have shown up at the police station where he was interrogated and made to write a statement to narrate what exactly happened on that fateful Thursday when he was alleged to have molested and detained Master Aaron Okyem Djan.

Nana Akwasi was alleged to have detained the 11-year old pupil in his house on Thursday at about 4:30 pm for allegedly beating his 5-year-old son, Nana Kwame.

He was said to have taken the young boy through a harrowing experience for almost four hours that the boy was under ‘detention’.

He later fired a warning shot to scare the innocent-looking boy.

It took the intervention of a woman said to be Okumkom’s sister to free Aaron from the ‘lions’ den’ around 8:30pm that day.

Baby Thief Grabbed At Korle-Bu

Posted: Daily Guide |Thursday, 03 February 2011
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By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Police at Korle-Bu have arrested a 27 year old woman, Jacinta Oduro Kwarteng, for stealing and selling a two-week old baby.

Jacinta, a resident of Agege beach road in Accra, sold the baby for GH¢300.

Sergeant Josephine Opoku, the investigator told DAILY GUIDE that on Monday, January 31, 2011, the baby’s mother; 24-year old Millicent Williams had gone to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra for a review.

She had by then been asked to go home and report on Thursday since the doctor was not available.

She approached Jacinta who was wearing a matron’s uniform seated behind the nurses’ desk at the Out Patient Department (OPD) at the Maternity Block to enable her to weigh the baby.

But even before she could ask her a question, Jacinta approached Millicent and demanded to know whether she could be of any assistance and the new mother told her she wanted her baby weighed.

Posing as a senior nurse, the suspect offered to help her to see a doctor in addition to accompanying Millicent to the central laboratory for her lab report.

As they walked to the car park of the Maternity Block, Jacinta convinced the nursing mother to wait while she (Jacinta) went back to the victim’s aunt, one Joyce Abaka, claiming that Millicent had asked her to come for the baby since she (Millicent) could not see the doctor without her.

Obviously not aware of her Jacinta’s ulterior motive, the woman handed over the baby to Jacinta, who took her away.

After waiting for a while without Jacinta showing up, Millicent decided to go for her baby from her aunt.

Upon reaching there, Millicent realized her aunt was not holding the baby. The aunt asked her niece whether she was not the one who instructed the nurse to come for the child.

That was when they both realized they had been swindled.

But all efforts to locate the woman and the stolen child proved unsuccessful since they were nowhere to be found in the entire hospital vicinity after security men had combed everywhere.

When the police managed to locate the baby-thief’s house along the beach road in Agege, a suburb of Accra on Monday, she had moved out.

The victim’s family however managed to locate her the following day in a house at Dansoman Last Stop and got some policemen to arrest her to the Korle-Bu police station, where a complaint had been lodged.

Upon interrogation, Jacinta said she sold the baby to a certain woman whose name she could not give for GH¢300.

But when she took the police to the buyer’s house, she was nowhere to be found.

The buyer who is currently at large is believed to be either hiding somewhere around Bubiashie, Accra or Asamankese in the Eastern region.

The police have since mounted a search for the buyer and asked members of the public to help them with any information that would lead to her arrest.

Meanwhile, management of the hospital has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Director of Medical Affairs, Professor Efua Hesse, confirmed this yesterday.