Aflao, Feb. 25, GNA - Two key suspects have been picked up by the Keta Divisional Police Command in connection with the basic school teacher who had gone mission since September last year at Woe in the Keta District.

They are Xovor Akpalu, 23, with whom the missing teacher's cell phone chip was found and Hunor Koblaga, 50, a fetish priest of the area who admitted selling the phone to Akpalu.

A source close to the Divisional Command told the GNA that shortly before their detention on Friday, Akpalu and Koblaga engaged each other in an argument over the phone.

He said while Koblaga insisted that the phone he sold to Akpalu was his personal property but without a chip, Akpalu said it contained a chip when he bought it from him.

The source said Akpalu also claimed Koblaga was in use of a phone he suspected to be the missing teacher's and added that he believed Koblaga discarded it when investigations were underway. The source said Koblaga denied Akpalu's assertion that he (Koblaga) had been using a phone he (Akpalu) had suspected to belong to the missing teacher and showed a phone to the police as one he had been using for a long time now.

Wilson Tenu, 29, a teacher of the Salvation Army Basic School at Woe, went out a about 20:30 hours on September 6, last year on a bicycle to buy a few items in town but had since failed to return and hopes of getting him are fading.

Mr Frank Edufati, Deputy Superintendent of Police in charge of crime at the Divisional Command confirming the new development to the When Mr Edufati was informed about the anger of the community against the police for allegedly failing to detain Akpalu and Koblaga soon after they were linked to the phone, a situation that they considered allowed the culprits ample time to hide key exhibits, he said in-depth investigation would still be carried out into the matter. Teachers and some sympathizers frustrated by the lack of progress in investigations into Tenu's whereabouts were said to be planning to stage demonstrations at Woe.