A district court at Mampongten in the Ashanti Region has remanded a 23-year-old student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) into police custody allegedly for murdering an Uber driver.
Emmanuel Awuah was arrested at Nyinahini on a tipoff and later led the police to a thick forest near Toase in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality to recover the body of Thomas Danso.
The divisional police commander at Tafo/Pankrono, ACP Annor Arhin, who briefed the media, said: “What he [the victim] does is that normally when the car goes to work they communicated every two hours, but for about four hours he could not hear of him so he became alarmed.
“On that same day around 9pm, he called to inform the police that the vehicle has been spotted at Nyinahini so we gave the details to our colleagues there to trace the vehicle, impound it and arrest the occupants on board.
“The main suspect is a final-year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He committed the murder with one other man who is at large,” ACP Annor Arhin said.
It was later gathered that the victim, Thomas Danso, a 24-year-old Uber driver, was murdered over a GHC1,200 debt.
“This happened in a thick forest between Atwima Gyankobaa and Hwidiem. That was where they murdered the victim and drove to Nyinahini after committing the act … He told the deceased that it was because of the debt that he brought him to that thick forest and demanded same,” ACP Annor said.
The partly decomposed body of the victim has since been recovered and deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for preservation and autopsy.
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UPDATE (17 July): The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has issued a statement saying that Emmanuel Awuah did not register as a student at KNUST for the 2018/19 and 2019/20 academic years. The university denies that he is final-year student of geological engineering at the institution. It is however believed that he studied at KNUST in 2017/18.
