Fear and panic has gripped residents within Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra region. The development follows series of mysterious night time murders that have rocked the area in the last two months, Today can confirm.
As at the last count, four males between the ages of 27 and 38 had been hacked or stabbed to death by unknown assailants in what appeared to be contract killing or robbery in the months of June and July 2015.
What was even more disturbing, according to some residents who spoke to this reporter on condition of anonymity, was the fact that all but one of the murders took place in the house of the victim with each dying from machete wounds inflicted on them by their attackers.
Indeed Today understands that the residents’ anxiety has been exacerbated by the inability of the police to make even a single arrest in connection with these killings.
Information available to Today indicates that the latest of such killings took place between the night of Thursday, July 16, and the dawn of Friday, July 17, 2015 which sad incident involved a 36-year-old engineer with the Metro Mass Transit Company.
The deceased, identified as Adams Sadik, was found dead on the eve of Muslim Eid al-Fitr with four cutlass wounds inflicted on his back and stomach in an uncompleted building close to his house at Doblo-Gonnor near Amasaman.
The Amasaman District Police Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Sebastian Adigiya, who confirmed the murder to Today disclosed that upon inspection, the police realised that Sadik was violently dragged from his room and stabbed in the stomach and at the back killing him in the process.
He said at the time of his murder, Sadik had his three-year-old son with him.
ASP Adigiya revealed that the police on July 17, 2015 around 7:45 A.M., received a call from one George Fiayor that a man identified only as a motor rider was lying dead in an uncompleted building at Doblo-Gonnor.
He said when the police arrived at the scene they realised that the door to the deceased’s room had been broken with signs indicating that he was forced from his room and taken to an adjoin room which was uncompleted where he was probably killed.
The crime officer disclosed that the assailants left the victim’s 3-year-old son unharmed but took away his motorbike which was packed in the yard of the house.
ASP Adigiya said an uncle of the deceased, one Abdul Wahab Abubakari, who resides at Amanfrom within the Ga West Municipality, informed the police that his late nephew hailed from Savelugu in the Northern region and was married with two children.
Abdul Wahab narrated that the morning before the incident, Adam Sadik’s wife left home with one of the children for a family meeting.
He said the couple agreed that Adams was to join the family the next morning only to be killed the night before the morning.
The body of Sadik had since been deposited at the Police Hospital whilst investigation is on-going.
However a week earlier, precisely July 9,, 2015 a young man said to be 27 years old was found dead at Manhean close to a newly constructed fuel filling station in the Ga West District in the Greater Accra region.
The deceased identified as Yaw Omane, was found dead with a broken left leg with several injuries and lacerations believed to have been sustained in the cause of a struggle with his assailants.
According to ASP Sebastian Adigiya, the police on 10th of July 2015 at about 7.00 A.M., had a call from an informant that a man was lying dead at a filling station at Manhean near Alavanyo Junction.
He said when the police got to the scene they saw clear signs of a struggle between the victim and his attackers who eventually overpowered and killed him.
There were also cutlass wounds on the body.
He said a brother of the deceased name withheld gave the name of the deceased as Yaw Omane, a Vulcanizer by profession, who worked at Anyaa.
He said the deceased left home to work in the morning and did not return in the evening.
ASP Adigiya said per their investigations the victim was attacked on his way back home.
Also in June this year, a 27-year-old man was killed in his room at Amasaman, the Ga West Municipal capital.
Like the Doblo-Gonnor and Manhean murders, the victim had cutlass wounds inflicted on his body.
Still in June at Amanfrom also in the same municipality, a man was murdered in front of his house. He was 38 years. The police found him dead with cutlass wounds around his neck.
No one has been arrested in connection with all these murders.
Meanwhile ASP Adigiya has assured that the police will do everything possible to apprehend the culprits behind these killings.
He therefore appealed to the general public to help the police with information to enable them arrest the killers.
He further advised residents to be very careful and take their personal security serious whilst the police do their best to protect them.
But scores of residents within the Ga West Municipality, Today gathered, appear unmoved by the police assurance.
“We now live in fear and do not know when these killers will strike,” a resident stated and added that “until the perpetrators are arrested, we will continue to have sleepless nights.”
According to them, they are worried about the state of lawlessness in Ga West and appalled at the failure of the authorities to enforce law and order.
Only last month the residents recounted a gang of armed robbers who went on a robbery spree around Amanfrom.
These events, according to the residents, have made them to feel unsecured in their own country.
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