The Madina District Court has remanded 35-year-old Daniel Koranteng, over the murder of investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale.
Koranteng, also known as Akwasi Amakye, has been provisionally charged with murder in the killing of Suale on January 16, 2019.
According to the prosecution, the accused and the deceased were employees of Tiger Eye P.I., the investigative firm led by Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The prosecution added that tensions escalated in June 2018 when Kennedy Agyapong, a Member of Parliament, broadcasted images of Ahmed Suale on national television, calling for his followers to attack him on sight.
The prosecution claims that Suale later identified Koranteng as the individual who provided his photographs to Mr Agyapong.
“On January 16, 2019, following the publication of the deceased’s images, Ahmed Suale was shot and killed in Madina. Call records placed the accused in Madina near Suale’s residence before and at the time of the murder,” court documents read.
It continued that during the investigation, the accused declined multiple police invitations and later fled to the United Kingdom in August 2019.
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He subsequently returned to Ghana, and intelligence led to his arrest in Amasaman on March 15, 2025.
After his arrest, the prosecution said he admitted to police that he knew the deceased, visited Kennedy Agyapong, and took photographs with the deceased but denied selling the photographs to anyone.
On the other hand, Koranteng’s defence lawyer, Kofi Essel, described the provisional charge as “shambolic” and argued that the allegations did not constitute solid evidence.
He further requested that the court grant his client bail, but the court remanded the accused till April 1, 2025, to allow further investigations to proceed.