The late Nai Osipi Darko
The body of the sub-chief, who was killed in a gun attack over a parcel of land around Kasoa Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region, has been found.
Officers from the Kasoa Divisional Police Command found the remains of Nai Osipi Darko beside the Jei River yesterday, close to where the shooting incident took place on September 23, 2020.
Nai Darko was reportedly shot several times just after sunset at a spot called Awutu Kwao Bondze.
The attack was said to have been carried out by a group of gunmen numbering 10 who were on ‘guard duties’ on the land where the Asafohene and his team had gone to supervise a fencing work project.
The gunmen then took away the body of Osipi Darko after the bloody incident, and the police joined the search and recovered it on Monday, September 28, after arresting three people in connection with the incident.
The Mponuahene, Nai Kwabena Atopi, who is known in private life as Michael Larbie, said the deceased person was his Asafohene.
“The victims saw the perpetrators. They mentioned their names as Kofai as ringleader, 10G, Nii Kwei Amass, Kooloko, Obanzo, Nii Kwei, Asafoatse Ahmed, Birdman, Sammy, Stopper, Shark and Alhassan,” he said.
He narrated that “Kofai and his gang laid ambush on the same land and fired shots killing one of our chiefs. After killing him, they have taken the body away.”
He stated, “The deceased in question is one of my sub-chiefs and he actually went there to supervise a small work there – fence wall project and then they were attacked.”
“Currently, what is making the situation bad is that we cannot even trace the body, but, fortunately, there were eyewitnesses who saw what happened and had given accounts for which we have them to go and give all the reports to the police,” the chief added.
According to him, what is so disturbing to him is that the gunmen, on September 12, made an attempt on his people and stole their working tools together with their motorbikes which they used to go to the site, but the police did not act on the report.
Nai Atopi indicated that “I just want to go on record that as a chief in an area, this land is our land. This land is our land and we are not prepared in any way to leave it to a self-styled supposed land guard by virtue of guns.”
“That one we are not afraid of it. We just want the law enforcers and the President to get the wind of it that this is the situation at Kasoa Ofaakor. It is not the first time these gentlemen have been mentioned. They have done these acts several times,” he added.
By Ernest Kofi Adu