James Womba, a suspect in the murder of Professor Emmanuel
Yaw Benneh, has told police that he had the motive of robbing his late boss.
Speaking to the media on Friday, October 2, 2020, the
Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police
Service, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, said the suspect in his confession disclosed
that he and his accomplice were compelled to knock out the victim, killing him
in the process, after he failed to yield to their demands.
The suspect per his confession is said to have carried out
the act with an accomplice whose name he gave to the police and subsequently
changed the name of his associate to another person.
The police say the suspect and his accomplice upon the
professor’s refusal to heed to their demand for money and his persistent
attempt to raise an alarm, hit him with an iron rod and gagged him, causing his
death.
DCOP Yeboah also told the media that, James Womba and his
accomplice, after killing the professor, took his two phones and an amount of
GH¢450 cedis from his wallet.
For fear of being recorded, the suspect according to the
police took a Central Processing Unit attached to a computer in the room and
dumped it into a septic tank in the compound.
The suspect in his confession also told the police that he
masterminded the whole attack on the late professor who had employed him as a
cleaner.
The suspect has said he and his accomplice gained access to
the room of his boss on the day of the attack, with the help of a duplicate key
to his room which he kept unbeknownst to his boss.
The late Professor Yaw Benneh, a law lecturer at the
University of Ghana, was found dead in his room on September 12, 2020, at his
Adjiriganor residence.
The late Professor Benneh who was last seen in his
neighborhood on September 10, 2020, was found in a pool blood with his hands
tied.
Subsequently, the police after commencing an investigation
into the murder arrested four suspects who were all domestic workers of the
professor.
James Womba, a cleaner finally opened up to the police after
breaking down under investigation.
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