SEVEN MILITARY officers of the 4th Infantry Battalion (4BN) in Kumasi and a civilian driver, who have been accused of killing two civilians, have been remanded into Military Police custody to reappear before the Suame District Court on April 22, 2025.
The accused persons are Lt Selim Nikki Neequaye, Lt Emmanuel Abrokwa, Lt Daniel Osae, Staff Sergeant Kumi Edmond, Lance Corporal Ameyaw Desmond, Private Ampah Felix, Private Gyekye Best and Thomas Adjei Mensah, a civilian employee and driver at 4BN.
The prosecution team initially urged the court to remand the suspects into prison custody for them to complete their investigations, but lawyers for the accused persons objected to their request and asked the court to remand them into Military Police custody.
The Suame District Court consequently agreed to the request of the defense lawyers and remanded the accused persons, who have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder, into Military Police custody, when they appeared in court yesterday.
Narrating the facts of the case, the prosecution said the military officers, including senior officers and a driver, allegedly, nabbed three males, namely Kwame Adu aka ‘Ogee’, Kwabena Sarfo, and Christian Obiri Yeboah, also known as Kofi Yesu, whom they had accused of stealing an IPhone from a civilian on March 28, 2025.
The military officers were said to have hauled the three suspects to the 4BN barracks in Kumasi, where they, allegedly, subjected their captors to severe beatings until they became very weak, after which they dumped the suspects in a bush at Denyame, a serene place in Kumasi.
Later on, police had information that some dead bodies had been dumped in a bush at Denyame. Police then went for the bodies of Kwame Adu aka ‘Ogee’ and Kwabena Sarfo, and conveyed them to the hospital, where they were declared dead by medical officers.
According to the prosecution, Christian Obiri Yeboah, who survived the beatings, was eventually found by the police whilst receiving treatment at the hospital, and he confirmed that they were beaten at the barracks over accusations of stealing an IPhone.
Meanwhile, the angry relatives of the two deceased persons (Kwame Adu and Kwabena Sarfo), who trooped to the courtroom yesterday, are calling for justice over what they termed as “gruesome killings of their relatives” by the suspects.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah, Kumasi