Kwadwo Owusu suspect arrested for hitting the head of a colleague illegal miner with stone leading to his death was arraigned before Kade District court presided over by His Lordship Emmanuel K. Boadu on Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
The plea of the suspect was not taken. He was provisionally charged with murder contrary to section 46 of the act of the criminal offense. Act 29/60
He was remanded to reappear on January 21, 2021.
Background
One person was confirmed dead in a clash between two groups of illegal miners at Akyem Aworoso near Akyem Apinamang in the Denkyembuor District of the Eastern Region.
Mybrytfmonline.com has gathered that on January 3, 2021, one Desmond Anokye Frimpong, 27, accompanied by Grace Dankwah of Apinamang reported at the Police station with marks of assault in his palms and belly, and the former reported that whilst he was returning from home after mining at ‘Awroso’ a suburb of Apinamang with his friend Gyekye Matthew, 33, now deceased, however, on reaching the outskirt of Apinamang, three suspects namely Kwadwo Owusu aged 44 years, Kojo Awuah and one Cash also illegal miners attacked and ordered them to surrender their gold because they went to mine on their concession.
However, they resisted and in the process suspect Kwadwo Owusu hit the head of Gyekye Matthew with a stone and he fell unconscious.
He was rushed to St. Dominic’s Hospital, Akwatia for treatment where he was admitted and passed on.
Police investigation led to the arrest of suspect Kwadwo Owusu while efforts are underway to arrest the other accomplices now at large.
The body of the deceased Gyekye Matthew has been deposited at the morgue
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
