Isaac Kojo Asare, a 27-year-old manager of a Takoradi-based palm kernel export company, is in the grips of the Kwesimintsim Police near Takoradi, for inflicting cutlass wounds on his 22-year-old girlfriend, Ruth Tuffuor, on allegations of infidelity.
The victim, who is a Diploma in Business Studies student of Takoradi Polytechnic (T-Poly), was first rushed to the Kwesimintsim Polyclinic but had to be transferred to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi where she is responding to treatment.
Supt. Akologo Ayamga, Kwesimintsim District Police Commander, who disclosed these to DAILY GUIDE, noted that the suspect and the victim had been dating for about five years.
According to Supt. Ayamga, Kojo Asare claimed his girlfriend, for some time now, had been cheating on him and that he once caught her red-handed having sex with another man.
He indicated that on March 28, 2012, at about 10pm, the suspect laid ambush in his girlfriend’s area at Anaji, also near Takoradi, on suspicion that she was cheating on him.
The suspect later confronted Ruth and allegedly inflicted multiple cutlass wounds on her while the victim struggled to save herself on that fateful Wednesday evening.
Ruth shouted for help and was later saved by some of the inhabitants in the area.
She was sent to the Kwesimintsim Polyclinic and later transferred to the Effia-Nkwanta hospital.
Supt. Ayamga told DAILY GUIDE that the suspect, who reported himself to the police, was in custody.
He mentioned that Asare was being investigated for causing harm with the use of offensive weapon which was a first degree felony, contrary to section 70 of the Criminal Act 1960.
Source Daily Guide Ghana
