The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested a 34-year-old taxi driver in connection with the alleged murder of his fiancée at Abuakwa in the Ashanti region.
The direct identified as Robert Kwabena Boamah was arrested at his hideout at Namong in Offinso Municipality on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, three days after he went into hiding.
Robert Kwabena allegedly picked up the deceased, 23-year-old Dorothy Owusu Annor, also known as Maa Abena, on April 21, 2025, in his taxi cab from her family’s house at Abuakwa.
The police disclosed that not long after he had picked up the fiancée and left her family house to bake bread, the police received a distress call on the discovery of the body of an unidentified female adult.
Officers were dispatched to the scene at a spot near Mighty Jesus Educational Complex at Dominase in the Kwadaso Municipality.
The late Dorothy Owusu Annor was found with multiple stab wounds on her body.
Police also retrieved the mobile phone of the deceased in the suspect’s taxi cab with registration AS8575-Y, with its ignition key still on at the scene.
According to the police, Robert Kwabena Boamah was later spotted and arrested at his hideout at Namong in Offinso on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
DSP Godwin Ahianyo, head of the Public Affairs Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, in a media interview, revealed that during interrogation, he confessed his involvement in the crime and also confessed to attempting to take his own life.
He has since been treated and discharged from the Abuakwa Polyclinic following the attempt on his life.
He is currently in the custody of police, assisting with the ongoing investigation.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
