The man suspected of killing J.B Danquah-Adu, the former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa-North, has claimed that he’s being haunted by the ghost of the former MP.

Daniel Asiedu told the Accra High Court on Tuesday [March 10, 2020] that he’s sleepless nights as a result of that incident.

“I can’t sleep so I want to speak the truth so that this case will be over,” he told the court, presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo.

He further revealed that some people contracted him to assassinate the MP and paid him Gh¢20,000 and promised to get him out of prison after one year.

He also claimed the second accused person, Vincent Bosso, is not part of the alleged plot to kill the MP.

“He is innocent and he should not be here,” he said.

Background

Mr Danquah-Adu was murdered at his residence in Accra on February 9, 2016.

The provisional facts of the prosecution were that the former MP lived with his family in a one-storey house at Shiashie, near East Legon, a suburb of Accra, while Asiedu and Bosso lived at Agbogbloshie, also in Accra.

About 11:40 p.m. on February 8, 2016, the MP was chauffeured home in his private car.

The driver handed over the ignition keys of the car to Mr Danquah-Adu and left for home, after which the MP retired to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.

At about 1 a.m. that same night, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house.

Bosso is said to have assisted Asiedu to enter the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of a security man who was fast asleep. On entering the house, Asiedu picked a ladder and climbed onto a porch on the top floor and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window while Mr Danquah-Adu was sleeping.

While Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. There ensued a struggle, during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast. The MP consequently held the knife and Asiedu pulled it through the former’s hand, leaving a deep cut in his palm.

The legislator bled profusely and fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times in his right chest and neck.

On realising that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones and absconded with his accomplice.