Two to be hanged for killing a former police officer

General News of Saturday, April 13, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-04-13

Twelve years after killing a former police officer on the pretext of helping him double his money, the two murderers were sentenced to death by hanging.
The two convicts, Ebenezer Tei (aka Rastaman) and Felix Okpanye, both fishermen, were sent to the gallows by the criminal chamber of the High Court of Accra.

The two men beheaded March 14, 2007, former police officer Emmanuel Appiah Kubi, and threw his body into Lake Volta at Old Marine, a community located near Akosombo.

They pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and murder in court, under the presidency of Judge Lawrence Mensah, Judge at the Court of Appeal, who badumed additional responsibilities as a judge in the High Court. Court.

However, a seven-member jury found them guilty and returned a verdict of guilty.

During the trial, the prosecution summoned five witnesses to prove its case, while the defendants defended themselves without calling witnesses.

Doubling and murdering money

The facts, as presented by the prosecution, indicated that Kubi had been dismissed from the Ghana Police Service in 2006 for misconduct.

After his dismissal, his father gave him 4000 GH ¢ to start a business, but Kubi gave the money to Tei, Okpanye and a favorite priest, Famous Yevugah, who promised to double him.

The three, however, failed to double the money for Kubi, forcing him to put pressure on them for them to repay his money.

Instead of paying back the money, the three men lured Kubi into Old Marine to interact with a goddess of the sea to double his money.

The three men asked him to recite incantations, but during this time, Yevugah hit him with a machete and beheaded him.

After the heinous crime, they kept their heads in a bag and placed the headless body in a canoe to throw it into the lake.

The luck, however, eluded the three when the canoe capsized and Yevugah, who could not swim, drowned. Tei and Okpanye however managed to swim until safety.

Stop

After the incident, Tei fled to Burkina Faso, but Okpanye went to the Akosombo District Police Command and reported that when he was traveling to Kotoku Korpe with his brothers, the boat capsized and one of the brothers drowned.

The police took Okpanye to the shore of the lake with some divers in search of the body of his dead brother, but once there, they saw blood everywhere.

The police suspected a criminal act, but waited patiently for the body to be recovered from the lake and, after four hours of searching, the headless body was finally found.
This reinforced the suspicions of the police, which resulted in the arrest of Okpanye.

During his interrogation, he confessed to the police that the ex-policeman had approached him, Tei and Yevugah, to help him double his money.

Okpanye added that they had told the ex-cop that they knew a bad priest in a village on the other side of the river who could do it for him. So they decided to take her there.

However, on reaching the shores of the lake, Yevugah and Tei killed Kubi, tied his legs, arms and stomach with large stones and threw him into the lake.
The investigations then led to Tei's arrest.