A communications team member of the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has expressed disappointment in the Ghana Police Service over the killing of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale.
Owusu is disappointed that six years after the killing, the police have still not gathered enough evidence to bring the perpetrators to justice.
He notes that although the former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, had threatened the journalist on air, it cannot be established that he was directly involved in the incident.
His comments follow the discharge of the suspect who was facing trial over the incident, with the Attorney-General’s office advising the prosecution to discharge him due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Commenting on the development during the BigIssue segment on the NewDay show on TV3 Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Owusu criticised the former MP for calling out the young man, despite having a disagreement with him, something he believes the ex-lawmaker got wrong.
He said the state of the matter is not something he will be proud of as a Ghanaian, looking at how the police have failed to bring closure on the matter.
“When I heard Kennedy Agyapong do what he did in terms of calling out Ahmed Suale, I wasn’t happy because no matter how you disagree with anybody, you cannot caught hatred for the person. There’s no evidence that it was Kennedy Agyapong who killed him; the police have not established that.
“But let me say that some of these things, the Ghana Police, it’s the institution that’s letting it down, and they cannot convince me that in Ghana, a small country, and Accra, a very small city, something of this sort happens, and you’re telling me that since 2019, you’ve gotten no closer to the murderers,” he stated.
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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