The US Embassy in Ghana says it closely monitoring the on-going prosecution of the alleged murderers of two African American citizens.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”OPOw0pSvIQxRi79o9utYVIDULxsPnaqq”]The Embassy said it expects to maintain close contact with the Ghana Police Service to get updates on the trial.<\/p>\n
The two leaders of the African-American community in Akwamu; 75-year-old Mamlena and 60-year-old Nzinga were kidnapped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave 300 meters away from their residence in Akwamufie in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n
Some six persons have been arrested and are facing prosecution.<\/p>\n
Various US Embassy officers have been in direct communication with the Ghana Police Service, even though the specifics of the discussions are unknown.<\/p>\n
According to the Embassy, they have confidence in Ghana\u2019s legal justice system and are therefore hopeful the suspects will be brought to book.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News’<\/strong> Rabiu Alhassan, the Information Officer of the United States Embassy in Accra, Jeanne L. Clark said: “We have confidence in the Ghana justice system and we are continuing to work towards a just result following the death of the two Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c…we do recognize Ghana’s legal jurisdiction for crimes committed in Ghana and we are cooperating with the local authorities as they continue with their investigation.”<\/p>\n Already, one of the suspected murderers, Anokye Frimpong has confessed to committing the crime.<\/p>\n Five other suspects currently on trial include, Nana Appia-Nti III, a mechanic, Nana Obiri Yeboah, a farmer, Brenda Kareema Mohammed, a pensioner, Yazid Alazim Mohammed, a businessman and Mensah Kamaugogo Muata, a surgeon assistant .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US Embassy in Ghana says it closely monitoring the on-going prosecution of the alleged murderers of two African American citizens. [contextly_sidebar id=”OPOw0pSvIQxRi79o9utYVIDULxsPnaqq”]The Embassy said it expects to maintain close contact with the Ghana Police Service to get updates on the trial. The two leaders of the African-American community in Akwamu; 75-year-old Mamlena and 60-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":116440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-116436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}