The Wenchi Police have established the identity of the man behind the gruesome killing of the station officer of the Badu Police Station on December 30, last year.
Forty-year-old Kofi Fofie, also known as Kofi Hyia, who was a native of Susuapa, a village near Badu in the Tain District in the Brong Ahafo Region, hacked Inspector Awusi Yakubu, 59, to death at the local police station, where he had gone to lodge a complaint.
The Wenchi Divisional Crime Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Vincent Adotey, who confirmed this to the Daily Graphic in a telephone interview, said Fofie was a father of three.
He said as part of investigations to unravel the mystery behind the action of Fofie, the police visited Susuapa, and interactions they had with people who knew him indicated that he was a calm and gentle person without a mental record.
Mr Adotey said Fofie�s compound was found deserted when the police visited there.
He said further investigations indicated that it was the first time that Fofie had called at the Badu Police Station and he was also not known to the station officer until that unfortunate incident.
It would be recalled that the assailant who had called at the Badu Police Station to lodge a complainant at about 7.30 p.m, rather hacked the station officer, Inspector Yakubu, to death with a machete he had in his possession.
A police constable at the station who wanted to protect himself from Fofie, believed at the time to be mentally deranged, shot and killed him.
The bodies of Inspector Yakubu and Fofie have since been deposited at the morgue of the Wenchi Methodist Hospital.
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