Unemployed remanded for attempted murder

Koforidua (E\R), Sept. 24, GNA- A Koforidua community tribunal has remanded a 24 year old unemployed Francis Boateng into prison custody for attempting to murder a taxi driver in Koforidua. Boateng is alleged to have clubbed Mr Ebenezer Henaku, a-30-year-old taxi driver he had hired to visit his father at Nyakuma, near Koforidua.

His plea was not taken and will appear again before the tribunal chaired by Mr Asare Dua, on October 29. Chief Superintendent of Police, Rose Bioh Atinga, said on September 16, this year, Boateng hired the victim's taxi to be conveyed to Nyakuma, a village in Koforidua.

When they got to the village, the accused asked the driver to park by the roadside to enable them to walk to his father's land. Supt. Bioh said later, some one who was going to fetch water in a stream and had earlier on seen the two persons, came across Mr Henaku with blood stains all over his body.

She said Mr Henaku was rushed to the village to be conveyed to the Koforidua Central Hospital. The accused was arrested when he visited the victim at the hospital. Supt. Bioh said the victim, who is now responding to treatment has been transferred to Korle-bu Teaching hospital.