Accra, July 20, GNA 96 The Police have arrested two people, who allegedly strangled to death a 68-year-old woman, Yaa Dufie at Sampa Valley, near Weija in the Greater Accra Region.
Isaac Eshun, a 23-year-old taxi driver and Kingsford Asare, mechanic, have reportedly confessed to killing Madam Dufie for a reward of a 207 Benz bus and 15 million cedis, respectively.
The Police have also picked up the son of the late brother of Madam Dufie, Adusei Poku, who allegedly hired the services of Eshun and Asare. Yaw Donkor, who received booties of the crime, have also been grabbed for further interrogation.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra on Thursday, Chief Superintendent Bright Oduro, Regional Crime Officer, said on Monday July 17, Eshun called a tenant at the deceased's house from Cape Coast to find out which time he the tenant would be leaving the house. Mr Oduro said the tenant informed him (Eshun) that he would be leaving for work at 0700 hours that day.
Eshun further enquired from the tenant whether Madam Dufie, whose taxi he was driving, was angry with him for not coming to render accounts for the previous three days.
According to Mr Oduro, Eshun promised to work the whole day to make up for the days' sales lost.
However, when Eshun drove to the house and met the deceased she collected her car key and dismissed him outright.
The Regional Crime Officer said prior to Eshun's dismissal, he (Eshun) convinced a gardener, who was hired to weed the house for a fee of 120,000 cedis that the amount charged was inadequate and that he was going to tell the deceased to add extra 60,000 cedis but that he (the gardener) should leave the house and should call him later. Mr Oduro said at about 0900 hours, the same day, Eshun and Asare walked to Madam Dufie's room strangled her, broke her neck, two hands and one leg and packed some items belonging to her and gave them to Yaw Donkor for safekeeping.
Soon after the incident, a tenant arrived and Eshun told him (the tenant) that armed robbers had invaded the house. The tenant, however, did not see the body of the deceased. Eshun and the tenant, therefore, called one Mrs Rose Aidoo, a relation of the deceased, and told her that armed robbers had invaded the house. They told her they had called the deceased on her cell phone but she did not respond.
Mrs Aidoo seeing the items packed in Madam Dufie's taxi questioned Eshun, who told her that the items belonged to his wife, who had just given birth and he was going to deliver them in the village. Eshun, the tenant and Mrs Aidoo proceeded to Madam Dufie's room where they found her lying prostrate with her arm, neck and leg twisted. The case was reported to the Police but Eshun and Asare denied knowledge of the incident but on further interrogation they confessed to the crime and said they were hired by Poku. Poku claimed that his aunt, Madam Dufie had challenged him over the sale of her brother's house.
Eshun and Asare further mentioned that Poku promised to give them a 207 Benz bus and 15 million cedis, respectively, if they carried out the act. According to Eshun and Asare they gave the items of the deceased to Donkor for safekeeping.
