Police are scratching their heads over what seems to be another contract killing, this time in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. Residents of Apire near Santasi on Tuesday morning woke up to the shocking news of a gruesome murder of one Yaw Atta. There were several gunshot wounds at the back of the blood-stained lifeless body of Atta which had been dumped in a nearby bush on the Santasi to Apire main road.
Atta, believed to be 36-years-old, deals in money exchange at �18 Mu� a popular base at the Kumasi Central Market and he was last seen around 4:00pm on Monday. The deceased person reportedly received a call from his business partner who asked him to bring $100,000 in exchange for local currency but he never returned. The deceased�s clothes had been torn when Daily Guide visited the crime scene around 9:00am, indicating that perhaps, he struggled with his attackers before he was shot at the back.
The bag containing the said $100,000 was nowhere to be found at the crime scene but ironically, GH�1,200 was found in Atta�s pocket upon a search. Curious persons, mostly women and children, were seen wailing uncontrollably in mourning for the departed young man, whom sources described as a hardworking person.
A journalist with Angel FM in Kumasi, Mmranteehene Wireko Brobbey, told Daily Guide he suspected that Atta was killed somewhere else and later dumped at the scene. Wireko Brobbey said eye witnesses had earlier indicated that officials at a certain saw mill firm at Bibiani (name withheld) told Atta to bring the huge foreign currency in exchange for local currency. The Angel FM reporter said information reaching him indicated that a certain man had been grabbed by the police in connection with Atta�s callous murder. The police confirmed the case to Daily Guide but declined to give full details, insisting that investigations into the matter were at the initial stages so they could not comment on it.
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