Crime & Punishment of Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Source: GNA

Rastafarian arrested in Aflao is not Tei

Aflao, March 21, GNA- The Police at Aflao said the Rastafarian arrested at Aflao on Tuesday was not Ebenezer Tei wanted in connection with the murder of Emmanuel Appiah Kubi, an ex-policeman at Akosombo. The Rastafarian, who gave his name as Kwame Boateng from Nsawam, had accordingly been freed after police apologized to him. Police sources told the Ghana News Agency that a police team from Akosombo was at Aflao on Tuesday evening to verify the identity of the Rastafarian before he was released.

Boateng was arrested and handed over to the police by a group of civilians while changing cedi notes into CFA at the Aflao on his way to Lome, Togo, in the company of a woman and a boy. Tei, also called Rastaman is on the run after he and two others allegedly murdered the ex-policeman at the banks of the Volta Lake at Akosombo.

Famous Yevugah an accomplice got drowned when the boat on which they were conveying the corpse of Kubi ostensibly to dump into the lake capsized during a storm.

The police at Akosombo arrested Felix Okpanye, also an accomplice.