Murder of JB Danquah. Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region,

Five persons have been picked
up by the police for
questioning following the
gruesome murder of the
Member of Parliament for
Abuakwa North in the Eastern
Region, Joseph Boakye
Danquah Adu, at his Shiashie
residence in Accra yesterday.
The MP was allegedly stabbed
to death while he was asleep
around 1:25 am at his
residence where he lived with
his wife and two children.
Those arrested, according to
reports, included three men
and two women. While one of
the arrested persons, Aplaku,
is a private security man who
has been guarding the house
for the past ten years, the
others are residents of the
area.
The assailant, who had his
footprints on the walls of the
house, allegedly struggled with
the lawmaker before he finally
killed him.
Police reports indicated that
the MP received multiple stabs
in the stomach and was
declared dead on arrival at the
Police Hospital.
His private security man, the
reports indicated, allegedly
told the police that he did not
hear the struggle that led to
his master's death.
The murder, which sent
shockwaves across the
country, has received various
interpretations, with some
people calling it contract
killing.
Police Version
Briefing journalists at the
regional headquarters, the
Accra Regional Police
Spokeswoman, ASP Effia
Tenge, said the police
received a distress call at
about 1:45 am yesterday from
some members of the
household of the MP that he
had been attacked.
A team of policemen were
immediately dispatched to the
scene where they found the
MP lying in a pool of blood in
his bedroom.
She said he was immediately
rushed to the hospital for
medical care but doctors
pronounced him dead on
arrival.
His body has since been
deposited at the Police
Hospital for autopsy.
ASP Tenge disclosed that
preliminary investigations
revealed that the MP received
multiple stabs from the
unknown attacker, but they
were yet to establish the sort
of implement used.
Deceased's Residence
When DAILY GUIDE visited the
house of the late MP opposite
Ange Hills Hotel at East Legon
in Accra, there were scores of
mourners, including political
associates such as the NPP
vice presidential candidate, Dr
Mahamudu Bawumia, and the
Acting National Chairman,
Freddie Blay.
The paper learnt that the MP's
wife and their children had
been taken away from the
house around 6am to an
unknown location.
A man who claimed to be a
personal assistant to the late
JB, as he was fondly called,
said his boss attended a
meeting and returned home
around 12:30 am on Tuesday.
“At that time his wife, Madam
Ivy Heward Mills, was sleeping
in a separate room together
with the children and so Hon
JB, after having his bath, also
went to sleep,” he narrated.
The assailant, according to
reports, passed through the
back of the house and using a
ladder which was lying on the
compound, climbed to the
bedroom which has no
burglary-proof and attacked
the lawmaker.
There were several footprints
including bloodstains on the
wall leading to the bedroom
as well as the back wall of the
building when the paper
visited the area. The
bloodstains trailed the
assailant who was believed to
have jumped into the next
house.
Even though police reports
indicated that no items were
stolen, reports gathered at the
house indicated that the MP's
mobile phones were taken
away by the assailant.