The Police have arrested a student, Safina Mohammed Adizatu, and her boyfriend Michael Fiifi Ampofo Arku, for their alleged involvement in the murder of one Frank Kofi Osei at Ashalley Botwe School Junction in Accra.
Mr. Osei, a Ghanaian living in Canada, was on a vacation in the country.
The student, also known as Safina Diamond on social media, and Mr. Arku who is Technical Officer at the Crop Research Institute are said to have stabbed the deceased several times on his chin, jaw, back and strangled him to death.
The Adentan District Court, presided over by Nana Aba Quaiba Nunoo, charged the duo with conspiracy and murder and preserved their pleas. The Court then remanded them into Police custody to reappear on August 12.
Prosecution, led by Chief Inspector Jacob Nyarko, declined a bail application put in by the defence team as the case was under investigations and efforts were underway to nab other accomplices currently at large.
The court turned down the bail application.
Narrating the facts, Prosecution, led by Chief Inspector Nyarko said madam Adizatu, is a 23-year-old level 100 student of the University of Ghana and Mr. Arku is a Technical Officer of the Crop Research Institute, Kumasi.
Chief Inspector Nyarko said Mr. Osei, now deceased is a Canadian-based Ghanaian, but had been in the country a few weeks ago.
On July 24, 2022, Prosecution said Mr. Osei visited Miss Adizatu, his fiancé, who resides at Ashalley Botwe School Junction, and decided to spend the night there.
Prosecution said at night, Miss Adizatu and Mr. Arku together with others yet to be identified stabbed Mr. Osei several times with a knife on his chin, jaw, back and strangled him to death.
It said madam Adizatu and Mr. Arku cleaned up the blood, while the deceased was in the room for a 24-hour period.
According to prosecution, the accused persons later dragged the deceased from first floor of the storey building through the staircase and dumped him at the gate of the house near where the deceased had parked his Toyota Tundra and washed the blood stains off the staircase.
On July 26, this year, at about 0400 hours, madam Adizatu called a police officer saying that her boyfriend visited her, and he had died in her room.
Prosecution said the Police Officer called the Police Patrol Team who rushed to the scene and found the body of the deceased lying at the gate of her house, but she and Mr Arku were nowhere to be found.
It said the Police later traced Miss Adizatu at Ashalley Botwe School Junction and nabbed her.
Prosecution said Mr. Arku after committing the act, absconded to Kumasi.
It said efforts were underway to apprehend other accomplices on the run.
