JB Danquah’s Death Was Contract Killing – Atta Akyea

The Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea, has described the death of his colleague, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu as contract killing.

According to him, the circumstances surrounding the Tuesday dawn killing points to the fact that it was executed by individuals with ill-intent.

Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu was stabbed to death at his residence at Shiashi where he lived with his family.

Five persons including two women, and three men, have been arrested in connection with the murder of MP for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu.

The five includes a private security guard who was in the house on the day of the incident. The others are said to be residents of the house, but the police did not give further details about their identity.

Speaking after a visit to the residence of the late MP, Mr. Atta Akyea said, “It should be obvious to everybody that this is contract killing. We trust that very soon, it will come to the fore as to who is responsible for this dastardly act of murder.”

Mr. Atta Akyea also called for the security of MPs to be beefed up, describing the lack of security afforded MPs as embarrassing.

“It is an embarrassment to even describe this issue because the MCEs and DCEs have security. The judges of the superior court have security and the ministers too have security including deputy ministers; so we are end of the joke because we do not matter to government that’s why we are not provided with security.”

He further expressed that hope that the circumstance surrounding the unfortunate death of Mr. Danquah-Adu would push government to provide better security to MPs.

“Probably the death of this man will wake them up that indeed and in fact, if it’s not good at all we should have night and security policemen.”

Neighbors claims

In an interaction with some neighbors of the late MP, they told Fred Djabanor that they heard about the struggling between the MP and his attackers, which forced them out of their homes only to find out that he had been killed.

They claimed to have seen a ladder behind the late MP’s bedroom, which they suspect was used by the assailants. According to them, they saw a man run out of the house but he could not use the main entrance because they had by then called in the police who were stationed at the gate waiting to enter.

About J.B Danquah

The late Joseph Boakye Danquah, once served as a Deputy Minister for Women and Children’s Affairs. He was the Abuakwa North MP from 2000 until 2008, when he lost the seat to the NPP’s Prof. Samuel Amoako. He returned in 2012 to win the seat.

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.

J.B Danquah escaped similar attack in 2010

J.B Danquah escaped similar attack in 2010.

The 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.

The assailants attacked him at a house at East Legon, believed to be his then girlfriend’s house. In February 2013, three persons who were prosecuted for allegedly causing harm to the late MP in that attack, were convicted with fines.

In that case, the married MP’s girlfriend, was the one accused of plotting the attack on him over his refusal to give her money.