The main suspect in the deadly clash between two illegal miners at Akyem Apinamang in Denkyembuor District of the Eastern Region has turned himself in to the Police.
The suspect -Kwadwo Awuah alias Otoyo, 41, who went into hiding after the incident reported himself to the Police in the company of his lawyer Benard Donkor Owiredu on Thursday, January 7, 2020, at about 4:30 pm.
He was arrested and put in Police custody to be arraigned before the court today.
As reported earlier, the Kade District Court presided over by His Lordship Emmanuel Boadu on Tuesday one of the accomplices- Kwadwo Owusu was remanded into Police custody under the provisional charge of murder. He will reappear before the court 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 but Kwadwo Awuah and one other Identified as cash were at large.
The body of the deceased Gyekye Matthew has been deposited at the morgue
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
