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The Kaneshie District Court postponed the murder case of Edward Quartey Papafio, a 64-year-old biochemist, who was allegedly killed by three traditional priests in Adeiso, in the Eastern Region.
The Court, chaired by Rosemand Dodua Agyiri, also forced the Prosecutor’s Office to put them in preventive detention.
The indictment, led by police detective inspector Lawrence Anani, said that for convenience, the police would prefer that the defendants be placed on remand.
When the matter was called, he prayed to the court for a date. He postponed the matter until November 26.
Christian Awoe Gamelie, aka Power One, 40, Famous Adukonu aka Scorpion, 37, and Yaw Azamate, 27, are being held on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, that is, murder and murder.
The three defendants have maintained their allegations.
Meanwhile, the police have detained two more suspects for other exhumed bodies.
The other two suspects are: Oscar Modzaka, Albert Ablordeynyor. The court could not read the charges to the two defendants because there was no interpreter for Ewe.
The case for the prosecution is that the complainant is Reverend Comfort Ruth Quartey Papafio, who resides in Takoradi in the Western Region.
Gamelie, Adukonu and Azamete operate their businesses in Adu-Kojo and Kwasi-Nyarko, all suburbs of Mame Dede in the Eastern Region.
On January 17 of this year, the author reported the disappearance of her husband, Mr. Quartey Papafio, from his residence in Kasoa on January 15 of this year at around 07.33 am.
The prosecution said that upon receiving the complainant, the police gathered intelligence that the deceased was last seen at the Gameli shrine located on the outskirts of Adu Kojo, leading to the arrest of Gameli and Adukonu on April 21. of this year.
According to the prosecution, a search conducted at the Gameli sanctuary revealed two pump-action pistols, a single-barreled pistol, eleven packs of cartridges and seven other pieces of cartridges from his room and two shovels were found hidden in the back of your house.
The Prosecutor’s Office said that during the interrogation, Gameli and Adukonu admitted to having shot the deceased with the bomb action weapon on January 15 of this year and buried the body in the Sanctuary.
He said that on April 29, the two took police to Power One spiritual / herbal center, where police identified the deceased’s grave in a makeshift graveyard behind Gameli’s home, adding that the scene was secured and obtained. an exhumation order from the court. For that purpose.
The Prosecutor’s Office said on April 30 of this year, a Pathologist in the company of Senior Officials from CID Headquarters, Personnel from the Crime Scene Management Team, Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Drone Operation and CID / Headquarters Operational Team together with the two defendants to exhume the deceased body.
He said that when the grave was dug, the decomposed body of Mr. Quartey Papafio was removed and his grave was found to be among other graves in the defendant’s cemetery, which was well fenced.
The prosecution said investigations revealed that on December 29, Gameli, Adukonu and Azamete conspired to kill Papafio, luring him in with the help of one Buzanga, also a traditional priest in Kasoa, currently a fugitive.
The Prosecutor’s Office said that before the murder of the deceased, the defendant intentionally made a false statement to the deceased and managed to charge him ¢ 10,650 through mobile money under the pretext of conspiring ¢ 400,000 to establish his company.
He said that Papafio was invited to the shrine on January 15 this year for purification and in the process Adukonu shot him with Gameli’s gun.
The prosecution said the defendant then drained a quantity of Mr. Papafio’s blood into a plastic gallon and hid it in the shrine while Gameli took possession of the deceased’s mobile phones and then buried the deceased with the help of Azamate and Michael, who is also on the run.
The prosecution said that Gameli and Adukonu allegedly confessed to the police that the blood on the gallon was a mixture of Papafio and another victim who was also buried among other bodies in the cemetery.
He said the gallon of blood and the body were deposited in the police morgue for examination.
Mr. Anani said that the author later identified the two mobile phones of the deceased.
The prosecution said the pathologist indicated that the cause of Mr. Papafio’s death was hemorrhagic shock, traumatic amputation, and unnatural severe chest pain.
