Suspect Corporal Robert Katey Koranteng and the late Ivan Apprey Baidoo
CORPORAL ROBERT Katey Koranteng of the Ghana Police Service has been arraigned before the Adabraka District Court in Accra and charged with murder in connection with the death of 20-year-old Central University law student, Ivan Apprey Baidoo.
The 34-year-old officer, stationed at the Traffic Management Enforcement Unit at the Police Headquarters in Accra, was arraigned on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
He is accused of unlawfully causing Baidoo’s death, contrary to Section 46 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
Per the prosecution’s brief facts, Baidoo, a Level 200 law student, had ordered a Yango motorbike ride from Ashongman Estate to East Legon to play football.
The rider, Samuel Wesley Arthur, is said to have jumped a red light at the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA) intersection.
The officer, who was on duty at the intersection, allegedly gave them a chase through Opeibea and onto the Tema Motorway.
Police information indicates that after they passed the old toll booth, the officer allegedly kicked the moving motorbike resulting in the rider losing control and the bike crashing into a concrete barrier. The brief facts stated that the officer drove off after the incident.
Passers-by rushed the two to the Tema General Hospital, where Baidoo was pronounced dead on arrival.
The rider was treated and discharged. A post-mortem conducted on September 3 gave the cause of death as hemorrhagic shock with blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen.
The officer was arrested on September 12 and arraigned before court.
CCTV Review
Dr. Sylvester Nyamekye, Lawyer for the family of the deceased law student questioned claims that the motorbike rider carrying their son jumped a red light, leading to a chase by a police officer.
Speaking in an interview on TV3’s Ghana Tonight on Tuesday, September 15, Dr. Nyamekye said the family wants the Police to establish whether the circumstances stated in the charge sheet accurately reflected what happened on the day of the incident.
He stressed that the account given by the biker does not support the police claim, saying, “Now, one thing must be made clear: we have an account, an account of the biker. That account really does not point to the fact that he had jumped a red light, and so the police would have to be open enough to let us know that indeed the facts narrated in the charge sheet correspond with the facts that took place or the occurrence on the day of the 27th.”
He called on the Police to rely on CCTV footage along the route to clarify events.
“We have made a point that from the UPSA up to where the Teshie roundabout is, there are CCTV cameras that would have captured in total what transpired on the day, and so if, based on their investigation and their own account, the biker had jumped the red light, and for that reason, the police officer had to give them a chase up to whichever point on the motorway where the decision was taken by him to bring the biker’s bike to a halt by kicking them, we would want to engage the police,” he said.
By Prince Fiifi Yorke