Veteran journalist, Malik Kweku Baako, has revealed that the bodies of the three High Court judges and the ex-soldier abducted and killed during Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) military regime, were burnt because of the resistance shown by one of them.
Speaking on Joy FM/Joy News TV’s news analysis programme Newsfile Saturday, Mr Baako, who was a prison mate with Samuel Amedeka, one of the soldiers who perpetrated the crime, recounted what Amedeka told him in prison about the murders.
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Malik Kweku Baako
According to him, Amedeka was suffering from seizures when he was brought to prison and when confronted on the cause, he opened up that he was seeing visions of Justice Cecilia Koranteng-Addow.
He was reacting to a news report on a former prison officer, Magnus Nortey Oquaye, who told Joy FM that the soldiers who brought L/Cpl Samuel Amedeka to the prison claimed he was mad.
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Magnus Nortey Oquaye
Justices Kwadwo Adjei Agyepong, Poku Sarkodie and Mrs Cecelia Koranteng-Addow and Samuel Acquah, a retired Major in the Ghana Armed Forces, were abducted and shot dead, their bodies set on fire but saved from a downpour on the night of June 30, 1982.
Amartey Kwei, Tony Tekpor, Dzandzu and Helki were all found guilty of murder, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. Amedeka escaped prisons and hasn’t been seen since.
But questions have been asked about the motive the young soldiers would have to kill the quadruple. Most analysts believe there is a mastermind to the killings, someone walking free.
Amartey Kwei has been cited to have had a grudge against Major Acquah because he was Personnel Manager at Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) when Kwei led a protest against the institution that got him dismissed.
The soldiers, however, noted that they carried out the atrocities on behalf of the Jerry Rawlings-led PNDC government.
He that sheds innocent blood shall not ever go scot free
They feel the repercussions one day
Tony tekpoh and Johnny dzandzu didn’t face firing sqaud wrong information pls