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The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has apprehended a 29-year-old man who they say is one of the undercover investigator's killers and a key member of Anas Aremeyaw Tiger's private investigation team Eye, Ahmed Hussein-Suale.
The suspect, Abdul-Rashid Meizongo, was arrested by the Special Forces and Tactical Weapons Police Team of the Accra Region (SWAT).
He was caught yesterday at West Hill Mall in Weija, Ga South Township.
Kweku Boadu Peprah, deputy commander of the Greater Accra Regional Police Acting, confirmed the arrest DAILY GUIDE Meizongo was caught around 10:30.
According to him, the suspect wanted to bribe the arrest team with a quantity of GH.¢20,000 to release it but this was refused.
"He is currently in our custody and we are also preparing to hand him over to CID headquarters for further interrogations and investigations."
Ahmed was hit three times, twice in the chest and one on the neck, on January 16, 2019, in Madina, Accra, by unidentified men, while he was returning home on a motorcycle.
The deceased was one of the Tiger Eye journalists whose photographs were distributed in "Who Watches the Watchman," a documentary by Assin North MP Kennedy Agyapong, who criticized Anas' work.
Police Commissioner Maame Yaw Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, Director General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), at a press conference held a week ago, revealed that two key witnesses were helping experts in forensic science to reveal artistic images help in their investigations.
She mentioned that up to now 13 people have been interviewed during their investigations while another is in custody.
The family members of the murdered Tiger Eye officer were invited by the police as a result of this breakthrough.
A DAILY GUIDE According to previously reported information, one of the men suspected of shooting Ahmed Hussein-Suale had been arrested, but was left behind by a police patrol.
Two suspects were arrested by a team formed by the family to help police arrest the suspects.
The second suspect was allegedly left behind by the patrol team, who was supposed to take him to the Kotobabi police station.
A spokesman for the family, Alhbadan Yunus, made this startling revelation in a newspaper narration.
According to him, the first arrest would have taken place at Ritz Junction, Accra, at a location on the Madina-Adenta highway, after Madina police were informed of the plans, Yunus said. DAILY GUIDE.
Alhbadan Yunus said that an information had shown them that the suspect was attending the place.
"We finally arrested the suspect based on the information we collected, but the Madina police told us that the case was beyond them and that the suspect was taken to the police headquarters."
He added that the two arrests took place between March 15 and 17, 2019.
"We received new information about a second suspect at a place called Polo Park near Kotobabi and not at the location indicated by the IDC leader during his briefing," he added.
A four-man patrol team, who was informed of the operation, observed the operation leading to the arrest of the suspect. Some young men have charged us against us, but when we told them that he had murdered someone, they allowed us to have him go, "he said.
The role of the patrol team
The patrol team headed to the Kotobabi police station, but on the way, she released the suspect.
"We waited a long time and upon arrival of the patrol team, the suspect was not with them. When we asked where the suspect was, the police stated that he had made an appeal, after which they had been asked to release him. They claimed that there was an order from above for the release, "he said.
"When I asked why a suspect in a murder case would be allowed to receive such a phone call and a possible release, he could not give a convincing answer," he said.
Abronye Vs Kotobabi Police
The first vice-president of the new patriotic party (NPP) in the Bono region said Oman FM that a suspect in the badbadination of Ahmed Suale-Hussein was arrested but allowed to surrender by Kotobabi police after receiving money.
The allegation of Abronye was denied by the Chief Superintendent / Officer in Charge of Nima Division's Crimes. William Daah after the newspaper called the judicial police bureau of the Kotobabi police station to authenticate the story.
According to him, the crime officer reportedly told him that there was no entry concerning an arrest of this nature.
"Of course, there could have been an entry when the suspect was not even brought to the police station, after being left behind after the strange call and order given by the police. Patrol team, "said a security expert.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey
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