Opinion › Feature Article       19.01.2019

Where Was Hank Johnson When JB Danquah-Adu Was Assassinated in His Own Bedroom?

Henry Calvin Johnson Jr. is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in DeKalb County, a largely suburban county east of Atlanta.

Every justice and press freedom-loving Ghanaian ought to unreservedly welcome the decision by United States’ Congressman Hank Johnson, of Georgia’s 4th Congressional District, to have the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) join in the search for justice for Mr. Ahmed Hussein-Suale, 31, who was brutally gunned down in the Madina suburb of Accra on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. News reports have it that two unidentified gunmen riding on a motorbike pulled up at close range beside the car in which Mr. Hussein-Suale was driving on his way home from work and pumped three bullets into his body.

According to news reports, two of the bullets were pumped into the chest of the renowned investigative journalist and longtime associate of famous undercover investigative journalist Mr. Anas Aremeyaw Anas, while the third bullet was aimed, point-blank, at the neck of the victim who appeared to have died instantly. The decision by Congressman Hank to put the full-weight of the US Government behind the search for the killers of Mr. Hussein-Suale comes in the wake of reports that a Ghanaian parliamentarian and longtime resident of the United States, Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, who also owns at least one television station, NET 2 TV, and a string of radio stations, may very well be the mastermind behind the cold-blooded slaying of Mr. Hussein-Suale, at least circumstantially (See “Ban Ken Agyapong from US, FBI Must Join Probe into Ahmed’s Murder – US Congressman” CitiNewsRoom.com / Ghanaweb.com 1/19/19).

This is because following the nationwide screening of the documentary titled “Number 12,” by Mr. Anas’ Tiger-Eye PI firm, an exposé on rank corruption at the headquarters of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), that resulted in the forced resignation of GFA President Mr. Kwasi Nyantakyi last year, Mr. Agyapong had gone on the warpath with his own counter-documentary film that virulently attempted to impugn the credibility and the apparently unethical and unorthodox practices of the Tiger-Eye team of private investigators, whose contracted work with the government of former President John Dramani Mahama also led to the dismissal of several circuit court and superior court judges in Ghana.

On the latter count, it is also significant to highlight the fact that the former President who collaborated with Tiger-Eye’s investigative team on the seismic exposé on the judiciary, had himself been caught in a Ford Expedition Payola Scam involving a Burkinabe contractor by the name of Monsieur Jibril (Djibril) Kanazoe, while Mr. Mahama was Vice-President of Ghana. It is equally significant to point out here that Mr. Mahama, while he has recently confessed to having unlawfully solicited the aforesaid payola in exchange for drafting up a contract that may very well have ended up costing the Ghanaian taxpayer millions of the Ghanaian Cedi, was never brought to justice. In fact, even as I write, this very powerful thief and robber-baron has been traipsing the length and breadth of the country desperately seeking to be returned to power in 2020.

But what is even more significant to highlight here is that it was under the watch of then-President Mahama, some two years ago, that another Ghanaian parliamentarian by the name of Mr. JB Danquah-Adu, the grandson of the legendary Dr. JB Danquah, one of the Big Six founding-fathers of modern Ghana, was brutally stabbed to death in his own bedroom by some two young men – some news reports cited the names of three criminal suspects – who claimed at the time of their arrests to have been contracted by some highly placed officials in the Mahama government. And as if it had been choreographed to score, the Chief Investigator assigned to the JB Danquah-Adu’s Assassination Case was promptly reassigned by the then-Inspector-General of the Ghana Police Service, the highest-ranking official of Ghana’s main law-enforcement agency. The Chief Investigator’s name was Dr. George Akuffo-Dampare, a Commission of Police (COP), one notch below the then IGP, Mr. John Kudalor.

Very likely, the order to promptly reassign Dr. Akuffo-Dampare, who was fast closing in on the criminal masterminds behind the assassination of Mr. Danquah-Adu, came from President John Dramani Mahama or his Minister of the Interior. In the preceding instance, the IGP not only promptly removed COP Akuffo-Dampare from the case, he also functionally and scandalously demoted the Chief Investigator from his post of Greater-Accra Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, to the relatively marginal post of Principal or Rector of a police academy training school in Ghana’s Central Region.

It would therefore be even more constructive, if the stabbing-death of Mr. Danquah-Adu, who also happened to have been cousins with then Opposition Leader and now-President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, could also be afforded the sedulous and rigorous investigative attention of the FBI, at the same time that the brutal murder of Mr. Hussein-Suale is being investigated.

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
English Department, SUNY-Nassau
Garden City, New York
January 18, 2019
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

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