The Mankessim chief involved in the murder of 25-year-old Georgina Aso Botchwey, Christopher Ekow Quansah Clarke, the Tufuhen of Akwakrom, a suburb of Mankessim went into coma Saturday.
A report of his demise had earlier been communicated when his wife caught the attention of neighbours announcing the death of her husband amid wailings and screams.
However, the President of the Mankessim Traders Association had gone into coma after court had remanded him and his accomplice, Michael Darko, a self-styled pastor into police custody.
The police later issued a release debunking the death reports, saying Nana Quansah Clarke is alive and still in their custody.
The duo has been charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, to wit murder and murder contrary to section 46 of the Criminal and Offences Acts 1980, Act 29 and put before the Cape Coast District Magistrate Court presided over by her worship Bernice Mensima Ackon.
Georgina, who had travelled from Yeji for an admission interview at the Ankaful Psychiatric Nursing Training School called Mr Darko, a resident of Kumasi who is the deceased’s sister’s boyfriend that she was in Cape Coast.
He agreed to pick her up after the interview which he eventually did with the Akwakrom Tufuhen, Nana Quansah Clarke on Friday, September 9, 2022 in a taxicab and drove to where the chief’s Mercedes Benz with registration number, GT 8686 C was parked.
They sent the prospective student nurse to the chief’s apartment at Akwakrom, a suburb of Mankessim where they took her phone, locked her in a room and went to Sikafoambantem, a suburb of Mankessim and dug a hole in an uncompleted building.
They later picked Georgina from Akwakrom to Sikafoambantem where Clarke hit her neck with a club, while Darko held her neck till she died. They buried her in the hole after shaving her hair.
An intelligence received by the Central Regional Police Command led to the arrest of Darko at Anomabo but Quansah managed to escape.
On Wednesday, September 21, he was also picked from his hideout upon a tip-off according to DSP Daniel Gadzo, the Prosecutor.
The two are to reappear in court on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.
Source: Onuaonline.com|Ghana
