The police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has taken over investigations into the stabbing to death of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu.<\/p>\n
The MP was killed by unknown assailants on Tuesday dawn at his residence at Shiashi in Accra, where he lived with his family.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the six persons including a security guard, the MP\u2019s driver and some women who were invited for questioning over the incident, have been discharged.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”E8m2UKAQ59cldE7becxod0NXmsYPeVmO”]But according to Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Franklin Badu Jnr, the late MP\u2019s security guard is still being held to assist the police in their investigations.<\/p>\n Already, personnel from the Police Homicide Unit have picked up the necessary leads from the MP\u2019s house as part of the investigations.<\/p>\n The private security guard who was in the house on the day of the incident, according to Citi News<\/strong> sources, told the police that he did not hear about the alleged struggle in the MP\u2019s room before his death.<\/p>\n The others who have been discharged are said to be residents of the house, but the police did not give further details about their identity.<\/p>\n Some neighbours of the late MP have told Citi News<\/strong> they heard about a struggle between the MP and his attackers, which forced them out of their homes only to find out that he had been killed.<\/p>\n They claimed to have seen a ladder behind the late MP\u2019s bedroom, which they suspect was used by the assailants to access his room where he was killed and left in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n According to them, they saw a man run out of the house but he could not use the main entrance because they had then called in the police who were stationed at the gate waiting to enter.<\/p>\n About J.B Danquah<\/strong><\/p>\n The late Joseph Boakye Danquah, once served as a Deputy Minister for Women and Children\u2019s Affairs. He was the Abuakwa North MP from 2000 until 2008, when he lost the seat to the NPP\u2019s Prof. Samuel Amoako. He returned in 2012 to win the seat.<\/p>\n He left behind a wife and two children. Joseph Boakye Danquah, a chartered Accountant by profession, is the grandson of late J.B Danquah, a Ghanaian statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar and historian, who played a significant role in pre- and post-colonial Ghana.<\/p>\n J.B Danquah escaped similar attack in 2010\u00a0The late MP escaped a similar attack in 2010, although Citi News has no facts to suggest that the incident of 2010 is connected to the current one. In that attack, the MP sustained a deep cut on his arm.<\/p>\n The assailants attacked him at a house at East Legon, believed to be his then girlfriend\u2019s house. In February 2013, three persons who were prosecuted for allegedly causing harm to the late MP in that attack were convicted with fines.<\/p>\n In that case, the married MP\u2019s girlfriend, was the one accused of plotting the attack on him over his refusal to give her money.
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