[ 2017-02-10 ]

Justice for JB Danquah-Adu slow – Wife
Ivy Danquah-Adu, the wife of the late Member of
Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North Constituency,
Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, is worried about the
delay in prosecuting her late husband’s supposed
killers. The visibly worried widow said the delay
is akin to injustice.

Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of a
ceremony to observe one year of the MP’s death,
Ivy Danquah-Adu said the immediate family is still
pained by cold murder of the late legislator.


“It has not been easy for us. What has been a
story for many people and an event that occurred,
has been our reality; my children and I, but God
has kept us alive. Justice delayed is justice
denied,” she said.

The Abuakwa North legislator was on Tuesday,
February 9, 2016 stabbed to death at his Shiashie
residence in Accra.

Two days after his murder, the Accra Regional
Police Command, led by COP Dr George A. Dampare,
led an operation to arrest a suspect who allegedly
confessed to committing the crime.

The prime suspect, Daniel Asiedu, a teenager, is
currently facing trial before an Accra Magistrate
court in the case that has been ongoing for over 9
months.


Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said
it will use every means available to it, to
provide justice and bring closure to the murder
case.


A former Minister of Information in the erstwhile
Kufour administration, Stephen Asamoah Boateng,
told Citi News in an earlier interview that the
NPP is ready to assist the police to speed up the
investigation.


‘Failure to serve justice will affect NPP’
Meanwhile, the family of the late Abuakwa North
legislator say the New Patriotic Party
government’s failure to ensure justice for the
family will affect the party’s electoral
fortunes.

According to an uncle of the deceased, Kwasi
Frempong, the NPP government must endeavor to
fast-track the legal process which he said has
been moving at a slow pace for the past year.

Source - citifmonline.com

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