JAK, Apeatu in the Dock

…over JAK’s strange order to IGP

In the matter of the serial killing of the about 31 women that rocked Ghana between 1999-2001, President J.A. Kufuor and Chief Superintendent David Asante-Apeatu may know more than they have told Ghanaians so far.

A police intelligence source has revealed to the New Democrat a very strange order given to the then IGP, Peter Nanfuri, by President Kufuor which raised eyebrows among senior police officers.

The strange order, according to the source (and which we dare Nanfuri or Kufuor to deny) was from President Kufuor to IGP Nanfuri in 2001 ordering him to leave the investigations into the serial killing to Chief Superintendent David Asante-Apeatu.

This was after Nanfuri went to Kufuor to seek permission to travel to Togo after the latest evidence he had indicated that some of the dead female bodies found were smuggled into the country from Togo .

“The President’s order was surprising” said a senior police officer “…because firstly, he was directing the head of the police service to hand over a crucial investigations to a junior police officer. This is strange.

“Granted that the President has no faith in the IGP to unravel the mystery, he should have ordered him (the IGP) to leave the investigations to any of his deputies or a high ranking police officer.

“The order that the IGP should leave the investigations to Apeatu, a Chief Superintendent, was really strange.

Apeatu was leading the investigations into the case. If the police were not finding the perpetrators of the act, it is the officer in charge of the investigations who should be replaced. Yet, the President decided that Apeatu, should be the man to lead the investigations. This, and the meteoric rise of Apeatu has raised eyebrows in the police service but no one dares talk”, the senior police officer concluded.

Chief Superintendent Apeatu is now the Director-General of Police CID. He is the same man who has failed to find the murderers of the Ya Na and the forty others, four years after the crime was committed in broad day light. He is tipped to be the next IGP. WOW!

APEATU WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR DOCUMENTARY

We have been wondering what kept CID Boss, David Asante-Apeatu from having his documentary on the serial killings screened since 2001, the year he claims the mystery surrounding the killings was solved.

Why wait for four long years before screening it? Why has the CID boss decided to have it screened now?

He told the Heritage that the full report (and the documentary) was to be made public in 2002 but the Accra Sports Stadium disaster prevented the government from doing so since it didn’t want to be accused of trying to cover-up the stadium disaster.

Granted that Apeatu is right, what prevented him from having the serial killings screened in 2003, or 2004 or 2005? Why 2006? Why after Kufuor’s silly coup hoax? Why at the height of the stinking NPP cocaine shame? Is it another attempt to divert the public’s attention from the cocaine scandal? David Asante Apeatu ought to realise that a lie has a short life span. Truth reigns forever.

Nevertheless, Ghanaians are waiting for the serial killing of women documentary which he says will be screened on National TV this month. We hope nothing will prevent the screening of this documentary (this month) because we have several questions to ask Apeatu regarding the killing of the women. :