Two dead (Courts &Crime)
Story: Alice Aryeetey
Residents of Black Smith near Laterbiokorshie in Accra are in a state of fear and shock over the mysterious death of two persons whose body was found in the area in two successive weeks.
The latest to have raised eyebrows is Septuagenarian, Samuel Nartey,aged 75, who was found dead last Saturday with blood stains on his body and shirt.
The deceased, identified by some residents as Foyoo, a landlord, was said to have left home on Friday morning to sign a tenancy agreement with one of his tenants at Gbawe in Accra but never returned until his body was found.
Although the residents claimed the incident was the second in two weeks, the Mamprobi police said last Saturday’s incident was the only one reported to it.
A polythene bag, and a receipt with the amount of GHC1400 signed on it was found  beside the body. There was, however, no money in the polythene bag.
According to a tenant, known as Aunty Kukua,  who lives in the same house with the deceased, he left the house on Friday morning to meet someone  in one of his houses at Gbawe.
“He did not come back until this morning that we have found his dead body”, she said.
This was corroborated by another resident, Nii Boye, a close friend of the deceased,who said Foyoo left the house to  sign a tenancy agreement and to take an amount money from someone who wanted to rent a room in one of his house at Gbawe, in Accra.
The residents alleged that the people who killed the man might have taken the money away and might have done so because of the money, and said that they suspect the person who gave the money to the man to be the one who killed him.
Even though the Mamprobi Police confirmed the story, a police officer who spoke to the Daily Graphic anonymously, said the station was not aware of the earlier incident involving an unidentified young man who was also found dead in a similarfashion.
The source said the family members of the dead man came to report that  the old man was lying dead near the street at Blacksmith, so they would start investigations after a post mortem had been done to know if the man was murdered or he died a natural death.
As part of enhancing security in the area,the source told the Daily Graphic that they would intensify police patrol there, and would engage the residents in the area to help the police in combating crime in the area.
The source said the residents would be encouraged to form a watch dog committee in order to safeguard the area, and alert the police anytime they had a problem.
The police officer also advised Ghanaians to be careful  anytime they go out in the evening, and advised that people should not stay out longer in the nights if they were alone, since crime rate or killing of people increase   during Christmas or when it is getting closer to December.

Picture: The Deceased and the polythene found beside him at Blacksmith.