The New Patriotic Party candidate for the Abuakwa North by-election, Gifty Twum Ampofo, has easily seen off her competitors to be elected as the MP-elect for the Abuakwa North constituency.
Ampofo secured 10,033 votes representing 89.60% of the total votes cast, to beat the Ghana Freedom Party’s Samuel Frimpong and Isaac Kwartey’s of the United People’s Party.
A swift police response after the murder of J.B Danquah, MP for Abuakwa North, led to the arrest of one suspect in Accra.
After his arrest, numerous media outlets reported that he had confessed to the murder. However, a video circulating online seems to put a damper on those reports.
Kwaw Kese has consistently been on the case of local police for their lukewarm attempts to solving the murder of his late manager Fennec.
And recently, after the alleged perpetrator of the murder of the late Abuakwa North MP, Joesph Boakye Danquah-Adu, was so swiftly arrested; the ‘man insane’ has found fresh reason for his outrage at their inability to solve his manager’s murder.
Ghanaians were shocked when news broke in the early hours of Tuesday, February 9 2016; that a sitting Member of Parliament had been murdered in his own home.
J.B Danquah-Adu was the NPP Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa North constituency in the Eastern Region, and was stabbed to death by unknown assailants at his residence in Shiashie in Accra.
Five people have been picked up by police for questioning in connection with the death of the NPP Member of parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu.
The 50 year old was stabbed to death at his home in Shiashi in Accra in the early hours of February 9. The assailants are believed to have climbed up a ladder into his bedroom to stab him to death.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, was in the early hours of Tuesday stabbed to death at his home in Shiashie in Accra.
Unknown assailants are believed to have breached his residence at dawn on February 9, and repeatedly stabbed him to death. Their motives at the moment remain unclear, although police have taken over the premises as they attempt to decipher what happened to Mr Danquah-Adu.
