Lens: Kufuor And Asante Apeatu Are Hot

As Nanfuri Refutes Lies about Arrest Of Charles Quansah Quansah Was Arrested Before NPP Came Into Office
The lies cooked by former CID Boss, David Asante Apeatu are beginning to crumble like a pack of cards.

The public is beginning to see through the intricate web of lies carefully put up by David Asante Apeatu, to convince the world that Charles Quansah is the serial killer responsible for the brutal murder of 34 women leading up to the year 2000 elections.

Former Inspector General of Police, Mr Peter Nanfuri, has now started to spill the beans.

The former police boss has categorically refuted claims of David Asante Apeatu that Charles Quansah was busted in May 2001 with the collaboration of the FBI.

Speaking on the Joy Super morning show last Monday, Mr Nanfuri affirmed that Charles Quansah was arrested and brought to his office to be questioned while he was in full charge of the Police administration before the Kufuor led government took over and relieved him of his functions.

He was emphatic that the American Federal Bureau of Investigations had no hand whatsoever in the arrest.

The former IGP’s assertion seems to correspond with statements of Charles Quansah that he was arrested way back in the year 2000 and not in May 2001.

Charles Quansah had emphatically stated that even though he was arrested sometime in 2000, for allegedly killing his girlfriend Joyce Boateng of Adenta, he was rather charged for the murder of a certain Akuah Serwah who was killed in Kumasi in January 1996.

Director of CID, David Asante Apeatu in a documentary recently aired on TV and subsequently serialized in the Daily Guide, had claimed that it took the assistance of the FBI to effect the arrest of Charles Quansah in May 2001.

Mr Nanfuri, in an earlier interview granted to the Enquirer newspaper, intimated that the exact date of Charles Quansah’s arrest can be ascertained from the station diaries of both the Adenta police station and the Police Headquarters.

Discerning members of the public have since Mr Nanfuri’s disclosure started wondering why a whole CID boss will deliberately deceive the country about the date and the manner of the arrest of Charles Quansah.

“If he can lie so blatantly about the date of the arrest and make false claims that the FBI was involved, what else is David Asante Apeatu not lying about,” queried Kwesi Hutchful, a restaurant owner in Achimota who spoke to the Lens on Monday.

It will be recalled that Charles Ebo Quansah had all along maintained that he was not responsible for the killing of the 34 women. He also accused the Police administration of forcing that confession out of him under torture.

Mr Nanfuri might as well be hinting at that when he stated the following in his interview with The Enquirer: “it is about time we start speaking the truth in this country. The truth is the truth, no matter the time or place it is spoken.”

Mr Peter Nanfuri’s declaration would lend support to calls for a full scale independent Inquiry into this all important issue.

Those who have seen Charles Quansah since his incarceration maintain that the deep scars on his body would corroborate his claims that he was subjected to torture. The names of Inspector Onipa, Superintent Issah and Sergeant Charles have also come up as the police officers who tortured him under the instruction of David Asante Apeatu.

Did Mr Kufuor actually ask Peter Nanfuri to go off a credible lead the Police administration had picked early in the year 2001?

Even though Mr Nanfuri initially denied that assertion by Mr Victor Smith on radio Gold last week, discerning listeners who listened to him clearly read between the lines and from subsequent comments through calls and sms stated that it was only a matter of time before Mr Nanfuri finds the full courage to expose what President Kufuor truly told him.

What have President Kufuor and David Asante Apeatu got to hide? A full Inquiry will bring it all into the open. But will the NPP government accede to this legitimate demand?