Driver who posed as UDS lecturer and one other remanded

A driver who posed as a lecturer at the University of Development Studies in Tamale, and his accomplice, have been remanded by the Kaneshie District Court in connection with a murder. 

The two are, Ebenezer Boison who is a driver and Nana Akwasi Adu, a trader.

Although the duo were hauled before the court in connection with the murder of one Wendy Fynn Morris, they have been slapped with charges of robbery and conspiracy to robbery.

Per the facts before the court, the accused persons are believed to have conspired to murder one Wendy Fynn Morris, a businesswoman in December 2018.

The prosecutor handling the case, Inspector Richard Amoah, said the third suspect, Kofi Somuah is on the run.

The two who appeared in court have been remanded.

The facts of the case as read in court were that the complainant is Rev Elsie Ansah and is a resident of Teshie while the first accused Ebenezer Boison is a driver based at Libya Quarters at Madina.

The second accused person Nana Akwasi Adu is a trader at Asofan and the third accused person Somuah who is currently on the run is an ex-convict.

On December 19, 2018, the complainant reported that her junior sister Wendy Fynn aged 40 had been kidnapped by the first accused person who posed as a lecturer at the UDS- Tamale Campus and arranged to travel with her sister to Takoradi on December 15, 2018, to collect some household items.

According to the prosecutor, the complainant later received information that her sister who went out with Boison at Madina on December 14 at about 9 pm was found murdered and body dumped at Japan Motors-Nsuano near Lakeside Estate.

Police investigations revealed that Boison met Akwasi Adu and Somuah an ex-convict when he was on remand at Nsawam Prisons and they became friends.

Inspector Amoah said while in prison the three engaged in mobile money fraud and were able to defraud some people including the deceased Wendy Fynn Moris.

He said, after their release from prison in 2018, the three met at Somuah’s residence at Asofan near Ofankor where they agreed on their modus operandi.

The trio decided fraud was no longer a lucrative venture.

Prosecution said the accused persons decided to go into vehicle selling.

In the early part of December 2018, Akwasi Adu organized a meeting at his residence where Boison and Somuah were present.

The prosecutor said they strategised to rob Wendy of her Toyota Rav 4 ST Wagon 2015 model with registration number GT 9520-18.

On December 14, 2018, at about 9 pm, Boison in the company of A2 lured the deceased to meet them at Madina Zongo under the pretext of taking her to Takoradi the following day to collect some household items.

Inspector Amoah said Boison convinced Wendy to let him drive her car whilst she sat in front of the passenger seat with Akwasi Adu sitting behind her.

The two, the prosecutor said, were armed with a knife and orange nylon robe respectively and drove Wendy to the Centre for Research into African Tradition and culture popularly known as ‘Ahlijah’ at Japan Motors near Lakeside Estate at about 12:20 am on December 15, 2018.

He said upon reaching a portion of the road, Akwasi Adu used the nylon robe to strangulate the deceased while Boison stabbed her twice on her lower stomach and died.

After killing her, the accused persons dumped the body at a bush near the wall of Japan Motors-Nsuano few meters from where Boison lives with the mother.

Prosecution said they then drove Wendy’s vehicle to the house of Somuah for safekeeping for four days.

They later took the vehicle to Eric Addo Metal Works, located at Agya Appiah, a suburb of Ofankor where the actual registration plate of the vehicle was removed.

The prosecutor said Somuah with the assistance of one Bright Teye a witness in this case took the vehicle to one Alhassan as collateral to collect a loan on behalf of Boison but was unsuccessful.

Bright Teye, he said then suggested that they should contact one Stephen Abugri for the loan which they did but later stated that, he was not having money hence they left.

The prosecutor said, the following day, Bright Teye contacted the said Stephen Abugri on a phone that Boison had decided to sell the vehicle with the consent of his brother who was allegedly the actual owner of the vehicle to be brought to him at ‘Gonja Spot’ located at Ashaiman-Lebanon.

He said, on receipt of the vehicle, Stephen Abugri drove it to Aflao and sold same to one ‘Taller’ for GHC50, 000 and made part payment of GHC30,000 with the remaining balance of GHC20,000 to be paid when the documents of the vehicle are handed over to him.

He said Stephen Abugri brought to Boison the cash of GHC30, 000 being proceeds accrued from the sale of the vehicle.

Boison then gave GHC3000 to Stephen Abugri to be shared evenly with Bright Teye.

According to him, on August 18, 2019, police had information that Boison had been arrested for his involvement in another robbery case in Kumasi, police went for him to assist the investigation.

Cause of death

During interrogation, Boison mentioned Akwasi Adu, as his accomplice, and on October 27, 2020, Akwasi Adu was arrested and on interrogation.

Akwasi Adu admitted the offense and mentioned Somuah as an accomplice.

He said, on January 9, 2019, a post-motem examination was performed on the body of Wendy Fynn Morris by a pathologist Dr. Owusu Afriyie.

Dr Afriyie gave the cost of death as strangulation, gophyxial death and suspected homicide (unnatural).

The case has adjourned to April 10, 2021.