TWO ARRESTED OVER DEATH OF TEACHER (PAGE 35)

A Chief and another suspect have been arrested for the lynching of a 38-year old Mathematics tutor of the Aggrey Memorial Zion Senior High School in Cape Coast in strange circumstances.
The chief of Ohiaba, near Abakrampa, Nana Agyemang Badu, aka Nana Korsah, and one Kweku Swedru, the suspects, are in police custody.
Police sources said after having been mistaken for a thief, the deceased was taken to the palace of Nana Agyemang Badu, who handed him back to the mob which had brought him there. The mob then took him to the outskirts of the village and lynched him.
The sources said after killing the tutor, the mob hid the body in the bush, took it in the night and dumped it in the middle of the Cape Coast-Abakrampa-Assin Fosu road for vehicles to run over it.
The deceased, Andrews Arthur, was said to have gone to Brafo Yaw, near Cape Coast, on Saturday, May 23, 2009, to look for Joseph Kwesi Acquah, an auto electrician who was repairing his (deceased’s) car.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Central Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent John Frederick Wilson, said Mr Arthur, who had not heard from Kweku Swedru for over four months after giving his car to him for repairs, decided to look for him.
He said Mr Arthur, upon arrival at the village, saw Kweku Swedru and enquired about his car.
He said immediately, Mr Swedru started shouting at the top of his voice claiming that Arthur was a thief.
Chief Superintendent Wilson said people who came around became incensed by Mr Swedru’s shouts, attacked Mr Arthur and after subjecting him to severe beatings, took him to the chief’s palace.
He said Nana Agyemang Badu left Mr Arthur to the mob, who took him to the outskirts of the village and lynched him.
He said the mob hid the body in the bush, took it in the night and dumped it in the middle of the Cape Coast-Abakrampa-Assin Fosu road.
Chief Superintendent Wilson said after a vehicle had run over the body, the incident was reported to the police and it was during investigations that the police were hinted about the lynching the previous day.
Superintendent Wilson said the suspects would be put before court soon.