Kwesi Botchwey Jnr, an aide to former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for disciplinary action against investigators involved in the murder case of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale.
This comes in the wake of the Attorney General’s decision to discontinue the case, citing flawed police investigations.
The Attorney General’s Office recommended that the case be dropped after finding that the police’s investigative work was inadequate. According to the AG, the sketch of the suspects generated by the police from eyewitness accounts did not match the description of the accused, Daniel Owusu Koranteng.
Speaking on Breakfast Daily on Channel One TV monitored by Apexnewsgh on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Mr. Botchwey Jnr criticized the investigators for what he described as a waste of judicial resources. “It is a waste of judicial resources because prosecutors would have to go to court, file documents, disclosures, go through the process for 6 years and today we are told the investigators did not do their jobs properly. I think that for the first time, the investigators have to be sanctioned.
It can’t be business as usual to serve as a deterrent to other investigators who also cook up ‘evidence’ to prosecutors,” he asserted.
Following the Attorney General’s advice, the Madina District Court discharged Daniel Owusu Koranteng, who had been facing charges of abetment of crime and murder in connection with Suale’s death.
The Attorney General clarified that the discontinuation was based on the police’s failure to gather sufficient evidence. The suspect sketch did not resemble the accused, and call records allegedly placing Koranteng near the scene were deemed insufficient for prosecution.
Ahmed Suale, a prominent member of the Tiger Eye P.I. investigative team, was shot and killed by unknown assailants in Madina in January 2019. His murder sparked national outrage and renewed demands for justice and improved protection for journalists in Ghana.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com
