It has emerged that the person, who informed the police about the alleged supplier of the gun that was allegedly used in the gruesome murder of the Takoradi Constituency treasurer of the New Patriotic Party, lied to the police.
Anthony Mensah, the alleged supplier of the gun, was arrested at Amanful, a suburb of Takoradi, by a night police patrol team.
He was arrested following a tip-off by an ‘informant’, Nana Bassaw, that it was Mensah who supplied the gun used in killing Mark Ofori at his residence at Fijai, near Sekondi.
However, investigations revealed that Bassaw, also known as “Born Black”, deceived the police.
The 49-year-old Bassaw was on Friday remanded by the Takoradi Harbour Circuit Court ‘B’ for deceiving public officers.
The source indicated that after the ‘informant’ got the suspect arrested, police investigations later confirmed that Bassaw did that on purpose so that Mensah would be in trouble.
It emerged that the two had a grudge and during a fight, Mensah allegedly destroyed the mobile phone of Bassaw without replacing it; hence, the reason he framed up Mensah for murder allegations.
After the arrest of Mensah, Bassaw managed to get the suspect’s family to buy him his phone and then proceeded to tell the police that he was misled and misinformed by a certain lady.
The court did not take his plea, for which reason it remanded him to re-appear today.
On Wednesday, October 30, the whole of Takoradi was thrown into a state of shock when Mr. Ofori was found shot dead at his residence.
The assailant reportedly went straight to the victim’s bedroom and shot him in the chest, killing him instantly. Preliminary checks showed that the suspect did not take anything from the house.
