Citi News sources within the Police service have revealed that three more persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of a local chief at Adeyman in Accra.
This brings to six, the total number of suspects rounded up in connection with the killing. The late Nii Tettey Saban is alleged to have been killed over some chieftaincy issues.
Two other people also sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds in the attack on the chief.
Earlier reports indicated that, the chief and some other persons were performing rites to lift the ban on drumming and noise-making, when some youth ambushed them with gun shots, and then dragged him to a different location where they beat him before shooting him dead.
The first three suspects arrested were identified as Asafoatse Nii Quaye Quartey, aged 39; Musah Mohammed, aged 28, and Rahim Yakubu, aged 20.
These three suspects were arrested at Ridge View Hotel, Kwabenya, where police say they had gone to launch a similar attack on another victim.
A pistol and 17 rounds of ammunition were retrieved from one of these suspects. Two unregistered motorbikes, which were among a number of motorbikes used by the suspects during the invasion of the Ardeyman family stool house on June 8 were also retrieved.
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(Via: CitiFM Online Ghana)
