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  • One more body discovered in Wa; kidney, heart and private parts missing

    Another dead body has been found in the Upper West regional capital, Wa.

    This brings to two the number of bodies discovered so far in the spate of unexplained murders.

    The most recent episode ensued last Friday, September 16, when the Police retrieved the body of the 58-year-old security man.

    Residents there have been living in fear following the murder of nine people in the last five months.

    It is unclear the motive for the killings as the police deploy more personnel to bring the situation under control.

    Regarding Monday night’s discovery, the deceased had some body parts removed.

    According to Upper West Regional Correspondent, Rafiq Salam, the body was found with kidneys, heart and private parts missing.

    Interior Minister, the Inspector-General of Police in the company of the Regional Security Council met the traditional authority and residents to assure them of their safety on Monday.

    More bodies could be found

    That same day, the leader of the youth group leading the search team feared there could be more buried dead bodies in the bush where one body was retrieved on Sunday.

    Suphan Iddrisu on Sunday led a search team that discovered the mutilated body of one of the murdered private security men.

    Speaking on Top Story, Monday, he noted that during their search in the bushes, they found some other body parts which they suspect could be the body parts of another person.

    “The body parts that we found, we asked the police to check whether those parts were intact or otherwise but our checks prove that those human parts that we saw were intact in the person that we saw yesterday so we are thinking that that was another person that has been buried there or taken away.

    “Yesterday’s incident started the same way, we went inside the bush and we were able to find traces that end up leading us to where they buried one of the men.

    Meanwhile, the Police have already arrested one person believed to be the prime suspect behind the Wa murder case.

    Suspect Kankani Adongo was arrested on September 19, at Bamahu, a suburb of Wa after extensive collaboration between the Police and community search parties.

    The suspect is in custody and will be arraigned before the court to face justice.

    “We got to a point and identified some items we suspected to be human parts. We moved on to an uncompleted building, and we also found some strange materials there too,” a member of the local search team said.

    The Ghana Police Service has announced a reward of ¢100,000 for persons who can volunteer credible information that will lead to the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators behind the recent killings.

    Source: Myjoyonline.com

  • They are ritual killings – Wa West MP on murders in Wa

    The recent strange killings of security personnel in the Upper West Regional Capital, Wa, is alleged to be ritual killings, according to Peter Lanchene Toobu, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wa West.

    The MP added that the killings had to be ritualistic because all the victims had body parts are taken, especially their internal and sensory organs, in an interview with Neat FM that GhanaWeb was listening to.

    Lanchene Toobu added that the regional capital has so far recorded at least five such ritual killings.

    “What is happening in Wa now is that people keep going missing daily, people are being killed, dead bodies are being found in shallow graves. This is what is happening in Wa now but we don’t know where the killings are done, we only find the bodies.

    “Also, the victims that have been found so far have some part of their bodies cut off which in police terms is referred to as ritual killing. Some of the victims have their genitals cut off, their eyes removed and their chest and abdomen dissected. They are being killed for ritual purposes,” he said in Twi.

    He added that “As we speak, I can tell you that five people have been killed. A lot of people have been called but the ones connected to the ritual killings are five.”

    Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service has arrested one suspect who is alleged to be involved in the series of murders of security men in Wa.

    According to the police, the suspect, Kankani Adongo, is allegedly involved in at least the recent murder of a 58-year-old security man.

    In a post shared on Facebook, Monday, the police said that Adongo was arrested with the help of some community search parties.

    “The Police have arrested one person believed to be the prime suspect behind the Wa murder case.

    “Suspect Kankani Adongo was arrested on 19th September 2022 at Bamahu, a suburb of Wa after extensive collaboration between the Police and community search parties.

    “(The) suspect is in custody and will be arraigned before the court to face justice,” parts of the post shared by the police read.

  • Wa killings: He had eaten some body parts of his victims – Dr Bonaa

    The main suspect in the recent killings in Wa, Kankani Adongo,  is said to have cannibalistic tendencies.

     

    Dr. Adam Bonaa, a security and safety analyst, believes he has information to support this claim and that the suspect may have consumed some of his victims’ body parts.

     

    “My intelligence suggests the suspect was behaving in a cannibalistic way. When he was arrested, it was found out that he had eaten some body parts of the people he allegedly killed. This is a very disturbing development if you ask me,” Dr Bonaa is quoted in a report by kasapafmonline.com.

     

    The analyst alluded that such tendencies by the suspect may result from mental health issues.

     

    The arrest of Adongo Kankani comes on the back of a recent pattern of security officers of some schools disappearing overnight.

     

    Lead suspect arrested after multiple incidents of murder in Wa

    Probe into recent serial killings in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region appears to have received a major boost after Police apprehended a prime suspect on Monday, September 19.

     

    The arrest of Kankani Adongo was said to have taken place through the collaboration of the locals and the Police at Bamahu, a community in the municipality.

     

    The locals who reportedly spotted the suspect apprehended him and then took him to the palace of the Paramount Chief of the Wala Traditional Area who in turn informed the Police about the arrest of the suspect.

     

    Head of the Public Affairs unit of the Regional Police Command, Chief Inspector Gideon Ohene Boateng in a statement on Monday said: “The Police have arrested one person believed to be the prime suspect behind the Wa murder case.

     

    “Suspect Kankani Adongo was arrested on 19th September 2022 at Bamahu, a suburb of Wa after extensive collaboration between the Police and community search parties.

    “Suspect is in custody and will be arraigned before the court to face justice,” the statement read in part.

     

    Adongo was said to have been found with some clothes belonging to some of the missing persons in his possession.

    The Police had a hectic time in their attempt to take the suspect to the Police station due to the resistance of the crowd that had amassed outside the palace who wanted him handed over for instant justice.

    Some eyewitnesses said they were subjected to some beatings at the hands of the Police in order to be able to whisk the suspect away, a move they were also trying to thwart.

     

    Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare who stormed the region today to address the Press, reiterated the Police’s commitment to safeguarding the peace of the area adding that, the investigations were being carried out alongside other security agencies.

     

    “We want to assure you that we’ll do all that we can to ensure that Wa Municipality and its environs is peaceful for all of you. The Police as the lead internal security agency is committed, very committed to working with the other security agencies that we’re already working with on the ground because the REGSEC includes all the security agencies on the ground and they’re the people who have been working on it until we also brought people from outside to come and support them. So all the security agencies are already part of the work we are doing.”

     

    Hon. Ambrose Dery, the Interior Minister and Member of Parliament for Nandom, while assuring that the security agencies were in control of the situation admonished the locals to limit their contribution to the investigations by providing relevant information to the Police rather than seeking to usurp the authority of the officers.

     

    “The security agencies, the Ghana Police is in control of the situation. They, led by the IGP will investigate whatever has happened in the past and all. What I’m assuring the Wa Naa is that the security agencies so far are up to the task and we believe we’ll support them to do their work. It’s in their domain of investigating crime.

     

    “But I did make it clear that in all these matters, the policy is for the rule of law to be enforced. If you have any information, you surrender it and give it to the security agencies to use.

    “You do not resort to self-help or you usurp the role of the security agencies. That we have asked the Chief to thank the community for their passion to help, and for the information that they have been giving and continue to give.

    “They would leave the real work to the Police. Only give them the information, don’t attack anybody, because if you attack anybody, you yourself will be a subject of investigations,” the minister warned.

  • Police arrest key suspect in Wa killing incident

    The main suspect in the killing case at Wa in the Upper West Region has been apprehended, according to the police.

    The suspect, identified as Kankani Adongo, was arrested today, Monday, September 19, 2022, at Bamahu, a suburb of Wa.

    This was after extensive collaboration between the police and community search parties.

    “The suspect is in custody and will be arraigned before the court to face justice”, the police added in a brief statement.

    Police have already assured that they will continue to maintain law and order in the Wa Municipality and surrounding communities after a string of killings.

    Police have special purpose police intelligence and investigation teams working with members of the community.

    10 private security men have been killed by unknown assailants in Wa within the last nine months with the latest incident happening last Friday.

    This angered youth in the area, who protested the incessant killings.

    The Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery has been meeting with leaders of the Waala traditional area and has assured of thorough investigations into the matter. 

    On Sunday, a body was found in a shallow grave at Bamahu, a suburb of Wa.

    “The body was later identified by family members of the deceased as Seidu Baga who was reported missing on 16th September 2022,” police noted in the statement.

    The body was subsequently exhumed and conveyed to the Regional Hospital, Wa for autopsy and investigation.

    Police have also said they are providing clinical psychologists to offer psycho-social support to the family.

    IGP heads to Wa

    The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare is in Wa, the Upper West regional capital, following the killing of private security personnel in the area.

    He together with some members of the Police Management Board and the Upper West Regional Police Command also paid a courtesy call on the Overlord of the Wa Traditional Area, Wa Naa Seidu Fuseini Pelpuo IV.

    Earlier, the IGP and some members of the Police Management Board and the Regional Police Command embarked on a security tour in the municipality.

    The maiden visit of the IGP to the area is to update the service on the new security measures put in place to bring peace in Wa and the Upper West region at large.