Legal practitioner, Martin Luther Kpebu, has explained the decision of the Madina District Court regarding its discharge of the alleged killer of late investigative journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale.
The court on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, discharged Daniel Owusu Koranteng, who was facing trial as an accomplice in the murder of the former member of the Tiger Eye private investigation (PI) team.
Several concerns have arisen following the discharge, with some expressing disappointment that the murderers of the late journalist would go unpunished.
However, the legal expert, in an interview on TV3’s BigIssue segment on the NewDay morning show on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, stated that the discharge does not mean the matter has been abolished.
He explained that the act means the court did not go into the merits of the case but chose to discharge the suspect because the Attorney-General (A-G) did not produce enough evidence to substantiate his case.
According to him, the A-G can return to the case whenever he feels he has enough evidence to pursue the matter. “Under our law, if a person is discharged simpliciter, then it means that the case has not been dealt with on its merits,” he stated.
Kpebu clarified that, the decision means that “the court didn’t go into the case proper. The court didn’t investigate the case,” he stated, explaining further that, “sometimes investigations can begin, but it doesn’t get to the point where we call it the ‘point of no return’. If it doesn’t get to that point – maybe you can even call five or seven witnesses – but if the prosecution hasn’t closed its case and the case has to come to an end, they will say discharge, meaning the court hasn’t gotten to that threshold.”
He reemphasised that the decision doesn’t suggest the case is over. “Anytime they find the right evidence, they can return and then the case will be heard,” he stressed.
Background
Daniel Owusu Koranteng, the alleged killer of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale, has been discharged by the District Court in Madina, Accra.
The late Hussein-Suale was murdered in 2019 in what was widely believed to be a contract killing. Koranteng, a colleague and friend of the deceased journalist, had been charged with two counts, abetment to commit a crime and murder, and was facing committal proceedings before the court.
At an earlier hearing, the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Nana Afua Bamfoa Bamfo, informed the court that the case docket had been sent to the Office of the Attorney-General for a review of the evidence to determine whether there was sufficient basis for prosecution.
On Tuesday, October 14, the prosecution told the court that the Attorney-General’s advice was for the case to be discontinued due to insufficient evidence.
Koranteng, also known as Amakye, had been granted bail in May. According to the case facts, the accused was known to have had a close relationship with the deceased and his family before the incident.
In June 2018, tensions allegedly escalated when former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, broadcasted images of Ahmed Suale on his television station and called for attacks against him.
Chief Inspector Bamfo told the court that the deceased later identified the accused as the person who provided Mr. Agyapong with his photographs and allegedly confronted him through WhatsApp.
Investigations revealed that on January 16, 2019, following the broadcast of Suale’s images, he was shot and killed in Madina. The prosecutor said the accused, who had previously worked with the deceased at Tiger Eye P.I., led by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, was allegedly privy to the deceased’s residence and hideouts.
He allegedly guided two other suspects, currently at large, to the location where Ahmed Suale was shot and killed. Call records reportedly placed the accused near the deceased’s residence in Madina before and during the murder.
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