Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Monday, May 23, 2016
The Bureau of National
Investigations (BNI) says media reports suggesting that it was covering up facts
on the gruesome murder of Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region, are false.
According to the security agents,
they were rather helping to unravel the circumstances leading to the death of
the MP.
A few days after the police had arrested
Daniel Asiedu aka Sexy Don Don, the first suspect in connection with the killing
of the MP (popularly called JB), the BNI took him into its custody and appeared
to have taken over the case for further investigations.
But instead of going further
with the case, the suspect’s statement to the police rather changed and the BNI
was said to have kept him in solitary confinement.
Thumb-Printed Statement
Before he left the custody of
the police to the BNI, Asiedu thumb-printed a statement making mind-blowing
revelations about how he, together with two others, in connivance with JB’s
security man, allegedly killed the MP.
He even mentioned the amount
paid him by his ‘recruiter(s)’ as GH¢2,000 as well as the persons he supposedly
committed the gruesome act with, and the role allegedly played by an unnamed MP
belonging to a certain political grouping.
JB’s security man was
said to be part of the plot, according to Asiedu, even though the man claimed
he did not know when the assailants entered the house, suggesting that he was
sleeping when they attacked his boss.
BNI Custody
However, when the BNI
took over the case for further interrogation, Asiedu was said to have made a
sudden u-turn, allegedly changing his thumb-printed statement by claiming that
he had gone to the late JB’s house to rob and not to kill him.
Asiedu had allegedly told
a team of BNI investigators that he went into the house to rob and that while
removing a television set from the wall, the MP, who was then not asleep, tried
to capture him by holding his neck and that out of fear, he stabbed him (MP) in
the abdomen and the ribs before escaping.
Major U-turn
A police source told DAILY
GUIDE last week that Asiedu was then reportedly insisting that the
statement he gave to the police on February 11 - two days after the MP was
killed at his Shiashie residence, East Legon, Accra - should be taken as the
true reflection of what happened.
BNI Denial
Some concerned Ghanaians, as a
result, raised eyebrows at the level of investigation conducted by the BNI into
the case and questioned what it did after Asiedu had mentioned the names of his
accomplices.
But BNI Director Pius Awelinga was
quoted on Citi FM last Friday as denying
any cover-up in the case and telling journalists that they only kept Asiedu in
their custody on behalf of the police.
Interestingly, since the BNI
released Asiedu back into police custody, the two alleged accomplices - being Junior
Agoogo who appears to have been identified as Vincent Bosso and Avenger - have
been picked up.
MP’s Assignment
Daniel Asiedu had said
emphatically in his statement that it was Junior Agoogo and Avenger who
recruited him for the crime and also said that when he asked them about the
source of the money, the two had told him it was an MP’s assignment he had been
asked to carry out.
Suspected Cover-up
One the eve of JB’s funeral
recently, NPP MP for Obuasi East, Edward Ennin, lambasted the authorities for
not doing enough to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to book and
said on Adom TV that he suspected an
official cover-up.
According to the vociferous MP,
there is a video recording that appears to show the moment the assailants of
the murdered MP left the crime scene at his Shiashie residence.
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