The self-confessed killer of JB Danquah-Adu, Abuakwa North MP, Daniel Asiedu aka Sexy Don Don, who claims to be a native of Larteh in the Eastern Region, allegedly told the police in a thump-printed statement that those who recruited him told him that a politician was paying him and others to eliminate the MP.
The suspect, who was remanded by a magistrate court on Tuesday, according to his initial statement to the police, claimed that he was contracted to carry out the dirty operation at a fee of GH¢2,000, only to change his statement later that it was a lone operation with the aim of robbing the MP – which led to JB Danquah-Adu’s death at his Shiashie, East Legon residence in Accra.
The suspect, after the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) took over the case, was reported to have changed the original statement he gave the police, saying that he went to the MP’s house with the sole purpose of stealing from him.
He said a scuffle ensued as he entered JB Danquah-Adu’s room, making him stab the MP three times.
Daniel Asiedu claimed that he entered the home armed with a knife, a catapult and a cutter.
According to him, his intention was not to kill the MP, but he stabbed him in the chest, his ribs and inflicted a fatal wound on his neck when the scuffle ensued.
The accused has been remanded in police custody until March, 1, 2016.
A source in the intelligence community, who expressed surprise at the sudden U-turn of the suspect, said Daniel told the police that he was at Zongo Junction at Madina on February 8, 2016 where he deals in second-hand mobile phones when he was approached by two of his friends – a certain Avenger and Junior Agogo.
The two friends, he said, told him that they had a job for him to execute at a fee of GH¢2,000 but even though he was not told the nature of the assignment, he claimed he knew it was about stealing.
Sexy Don Don told the police that he was a student, 20-year-old, and lives in an unmarked house in Accra.
On the following day, Tuesday, February 9, 2016, he said his friends came to pick him in a taxi at Zongo Junction for the operation at Shiashie.
Source: GhanaWeb
