A businessman, Emmanuel Nii Boi Abbey, who doubles as the First Executor and Trustee of The Max’s Estates Realty Trust, escaped an assassination attempt on his life when a man he had never met attempted to kill him in his office.
Narrating the incident to the DAILY GUIDE in Accra, the victim said on Friday, January 26, 2024 at around 7pm, he was able to overpower the suspect purporting to be a courier service provider, who attacked him in his office at Kokomlemle in Accra.
According to him, after the suspect had persistently failed to coerce him to accept a parcel which was allegedly sent by an unknown person, he sprayed the businessman with tear gas for over 20 seconds, and subsequently pulled out a syringe filled with a substance which was later established by the Ghana Standards Authority to be a lethal acid.
The suspect, and his accomplice, who fled the scene while on a motorbike after failing to release the substance into the victim, was hit by a moving taxi, when the taxi driver observed that some people in the neighbourhood were pursuing them.
The two after realising they had caught the attention of others in the neighbourhood, fled the scene and abandoned the motorbike.
He said the Nima Police Division, after four weeks of intensive investigations, apprehended two suspects in connection with the incident.
Prosecution of the case at the Dansoman Circuit Court could not take place on Monday, February 26,2024.
When the suspects arrived at the court, they were quickly taken back by the police escort a few minutes after.
Our sources revealed that the suspects were taken back by the police following a call from the Police Headquarters.
Quite recently, Mr. Johnson of Jirapa Hotel was also murdered in his hotel.
Mr. Nii Boi Abbey, who looked worried, told the DAILY GUIDE that he was suspicious that some bigwigs are seeking to frustrate the prosecution.
Mr. Abbey also questioned why suspects had been called to report to the Police Headquarters without giving any information to him, the complainant.
He further called on all individuals or institutions who are attempting to meddle in the process, to allow the case to proceed without interference, for justice to be administered.
BY Ebenezer K. Amponsah