Immigration officer remanded over man's death

A Ho Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Ernest Yao Obimpeh, has remanded a 31-year-old Assistant Inspector of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in prison custody for stabbing his cousin, Mensah Ketti, 30, to death last Tuesday.

Francis Eneh, the GIS officer was alleged to have stabbed Ketti in the stomach during a scuffle that ensued between them on May.5, 2010 at Ave Atanve in the Adaklu-Ayigbe District in the Volta Region.

Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anthony Danso said at about 9.00a.m. on that fateful day, Ketti and his father, who is an uncle of Francis, were engaged in an argument over a missing mobile phone.

ASP Danso said Ketti's father had accused his son of the theft but Eneh intervened and managed to retrieve the mobile phone from Ketti and give it to the father.

He said at about 9.30 in the evening Ketti, who was not satisfied with the turn of events, confronted Eneh who was by then waiting for a vehicle by the roadside to return to Accra for an examination the next day.

In the ensuing scuffle, Ketti held Eneh by the throat and a dagger which was on Francis fell on the ground. As the two struggled to pick it up, it stabbed, Ketti in the stomach in the process.

ASP Danso said Eneh reported himself to Togbe Godoh, Chief of Ave Atanve, who also handed him over to the police for investigations.

The prosecutor said Ketti was rushed to the nearest hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.