Collins Ameyaw, one of seven suspects facing trial at the Tuobodom District Court over the murder of a level 300 Basic Education student of the Atebubu College of Education, Hannah Akosua Frimpomaa, has been lying to the investigators of the case all this while.
A witness, Mohammed Suleman, a phone dealer (repairer) and a suspect in the case told this reporter that Collins Ameyaw, who resides both at Wenchi and Techiman and the prime suspect in the case, was the one who brought Hannah’s Samsung mobile phone to his shop to sell for him.
According to Mohammed, he is a phone dealer who sells, buys, repairs and unlocks phones.
“We also advertise phones online for prospective buyers. When you bring your phone and we are unable to buy it immediately and give you money, the owner can leave the phone with us to advertise online for others to express interest. In this case, this is what we did for Collins.
Collins personally brought the phone to me (being the master) one early morning at about 8-9am on June 28, 2024, to buy.
But, because I didn’t have money I took the phone, advertised it online and somebody else came for it and sold it to another person and later gave Collins part payment. He later went for the rest of the money from the guy who sold the phone.
He said after the above transaction he did not hear nor set eyes on Collins again until he was arrested with two of his boys by police in connection with the phone.
Mohammed explained further that apart from direct voice communication with Collins, they both chat on WhatsApp.
Surprise
“So, I was surprised to hear that Collins was telling the investigators he doesn’t know me from Adam and that he was not the one who brought me the phone to sell. This is palpable false because it was Collins Ameyaw who brought me the phone to sell.”
According to him, the Police has confirmed to him that the CIM card Collins used to communicate with the late Hannah is the same CIM card he communicated with me (Mohammed), yet he denied ever bringing me the phone to sell or ever knowing me.
Meanwhile, about seven to nine suspects including Mohammed Suleman, Edward Allhason, Fosuhene Isaac, Benjamin Wiafe, Collins Ameyaw (the prime Suspect), and a Nigerian phone dealer and another whose names are not readily available to this reporter are facing prosecution at the Tuobodom District Court on various charges presided over by his Worship Frimpong Manso.
One of them is, however, serving five months’ remainder for violating his bail conditions.
Collins is said to live with his mother in Techiman while the father lives at Wenchi. But any time he commits crime in Techiman he runs to go and hide at Wenchi.
It would be recalled that Collins Ameyaw was the first suspect to be arrested at Wenchi by the police after news broke out about the murder of the teacher trainee.
The suspects last appeared in court on May 20, 2025, presided over by his Worship Frimpong Manso and they are to re-appear on June 20, 2025.
Police sources say the case has been forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department for advice.
Slow process
Meanwhile, father of the late teacher trainee Kwadwo Amoah is pleading with the authorities for speedy trial to give her daughter justice. According to him the process is slow, making him feel the daughter might not get justice.
“When the case is called, witnesses only appear in the witness box briefly and it is adjourned for another date without going into the merits of the case. This makes me feel it is intentional to delay the case for it to lose value, so suspects are left off the hook.”
He therefore appealed to the AG to give timely advice to the court to give verdicts.
Background
It would be recalled that in June 2024, Hannah Akosua Frimpongmaa, 21, a level 300 Basic Education student of Atebubu College of Education, was murdered in cold blood after she left home at Ofuman to go to school after school re-opened.
Hannah upon reaching campus realized she had lost her smart phone and when she dialed the number a respondent at the other end asked her to come for it at Techiman to which she went and met her untimely death.
From Daniel Y. Dayee, Sunyani
