A 28-year-old man, Yaw Opoku, has been sent to his early grave after he was allegedly stabbed to death by his close pal following a row over GH\u00a220 at Abo near Tweapiase in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0suffered stab wounds to the lower part of his chest and was pronounced dead upon\u00a0arrival\u00a0at the Obuasi Gov\u00adernment Hospital.<\/p>\n
The Jacobu police arrested the suspect, Isaac Opoku, 29, who allegedly had a spat with Yaw Opoku over GH\u00a220 he owed the vic\u00adtim’s wife at the Abo community, also close to Obuasi.<\/p>\n
DSP Douglas Kumah, Jacobu Dis\u00adtrict Police Commander, who con\u00adfirmed the incident, said that the suspect turned him\u00adself in after the act.<\/p>\n
Isaac was said to have been “like a wounded lion” when he set upon\u00a0Yaw Opoku, a father of five, with a two-inch knife after a fight broke out between them.<\/p>\n
The police chief narrated that Isaac Opoku and Yaw Opoku, who both worked as ‘galamsey’ operators in one of the communities in the dis\u00adtrict, had known each other since childhood and shared an interest in prospecting gold.<\/p>\n
DSP Kumah said the victim decided to give money to his wife,\u00a0Dina Opoku, and asked the suspect, who was on his way home, to take it to the wife.<\/p>\n
According to the police, although Yaw Opoku handed over GH\u00a2100\u00a0to Isaac, the suspect gave the woman only GH\u00a2\u00a080 and refused to give\u00a0Dina the\u00a0remaining GH\u00a220, despite persistent demands.<\/p>\n
After it was brought to his atten\u00adtion, Yaw proceeded to his friend’s house to demand a refund of the remaining amount, which culminated in a heated argument.<\/p>\n
DSP Kumah disclosed that Yaw threw away food being prepared in a saucepan – an action which angered\u00a0Isaac. The saucepan, Isaac said was\u00a0bought on cred\u00adit from Yaw’s wife.<\/p>\n
“The deceased [Yaw] apparently became upset at what he saw as lack of respect for him when the suspect told him he had made a cash swap with the GH\u00a2\u00a020 for a down payment made to Yaw’s wife to buy the saucepan,” the police boss narrated.<\/p>\n
The duo squared up to each other, and Isaac, who had allegedly picked up a knife, gave his friend a fatal stab, leading to his untimely death.<\/p>\n
Yaw Opoku died from severe blood loss after Isaac Opoku’s knife penetrated his lungs and severed veins and arteries in his stomach.<\/p>\n
Isaac ran to the Obuasi Central Police Station and told the officers he had killed his friend.<\/p>\n
The paper gathered that Yaw’s wife, Dina Opoku, was “absolutely devastated” by her husband’s death as the man was the bread winner.<\/p>\n
The couple had five children with the oldest aged nine and the last born barely two years old.<\/p>\n
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Source: Daily Guide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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