A 25-year-old pregnant widow with three kids, Fataya Ibrahim, is asking the Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, to personally mount an investigation into the murder of her husband at Prampram.
Samuel Katernor, 33, a surveyor and livestock farmer, was allegedly shot to death by a local chief and his men, after he and his colleagues had allegedly chased them off a site at Prampram.
Samuel was allegedly gunned down from behind while on a motorbike as a pillion rider on May 14, this year.
Speaking Hausa, a mourning Fataya Ibrahim said: “The Prampram police have changed the narrative that my husband and his colleagues attacked the said gunmen in their house, and that he fell off a motorbike in his attempt to escape a reprisal attack.
It is a naked lie the Prampram police are telling the world. I want the IGP to listen to my painful cry and that of my unborn child to give us justice. His (IGP) men are telling lies.”
Speaking to Moses Teye Katernor, Head of the Katernor Family in Ashaiman, he said on May 14, 2020, while at a site where Samuel and his colleagues were working for their employer, they heard the loud honking of a vehicle moving in their direction.
He said the workers ran to find out who it was, and when they approached the vehicle, they saw one of the local chiefs and his men chasing their employer.
To save their employer, the workers chased away the said chief and his men until they scattered at some point at Ningo.
“On his return, a gun was fired from behind him and the bullet hit Samuel who was a pillion rider on a motorbike. He died before arriving at the Prampram Polyclinic,” he narrated.
The Ningo-Prampram District Police Commander, Superintendent Mohammed Issah Cantona, and some of the personnel, Mr Katernor continued, visited the scene, “and instead of talking to both parties to ascertain the whole truth, the Commander spoke to the said chief and his men. He dismissed the narration of Samuel’s colleagues and their employer.
“He strongly and openly dismissed evidence that Samuel was allegedly gunned down by the chief and his men. He, further, in his biased and ignorant posture, accused Samuel and his colleagues of going to attack the chief in his house, and in an attempt to escape a reprisal attack from the chief and his men, fell from a motorbike and died. We have evidence of video of Superintendent Cantona making this claim openly at the Prampram Polyclinic, where he called his superiors on phone to narrate same lies to them,” he said.
The remains of Samuel was deposited at the Police Hospital, Accra, where an autopsy report, signed by Chief Superintendent Dr Owusu Afriyie of the facility on May 18, 2020, indicated that Samuel died through haemorrhagic shock, severe chest injury, and gunshot at a distant range.
“We (family) believe that the conduct of the Prampram police, in swaying the narrative in favour of the attackers of Samuel and his colleagues, is a major contributor to the inability of the police to arrest the attackers. We, therefore, urge the IGP to take a personal interest in this matter to expand investigations in order to give us justice,” Moses Teye Katernor pleaded.
The deceased was laid to rest on May 22, 2020.
In a telephone interview with Superintendent Mohammed Issah Cantona on the allegations against his position on the matter, he said: “The allegation is false. The deceased and his colleagues are land guards. He is popular in Ashaiman. He came to Prampram to kill and God intervened, so what they told you is full of lies.”
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