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Ahmed Suale case: Investigators must be punished for shoddy work – NPP’s Kwesi Botchwey

Kwesi Botchwey Jnr, an aide to former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for sanctions against investigators involved in the murder case of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale, following the Attorney General’s decision to discontinue the case.

The Attorney General’s Office advised that the case be dropped after determining that the Police investigation was flawed. According to the AG, the sketch of the assailants generated by the Police from eyewitness accounts did not match the descriptive identity of the accused, Daniel Owusu Koranteng.

Speaking on Breakfast Daily on Channel One TV on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Mr. Botchwey Jnr argued that the investigators responsible should be punished for the poor investigation and for wasting judicial resources on a case that had dragged on for nearly six years.

“It is a waste of judicial resources because prosecutors would have to go to court, file documents, disclosures, go through the process for 6 years and today we are told the investigators did not do their jobs properly.

I think that for the first time, the investigators have to be sanctioned. It can’t be business as usual to serve as a deterrent to other investigators who also cook up ‘evidence’ to prosecutors,” he said.

The Madina District Court has since discharged Daniel Owusu Koranteng, who had been charged with abetment of crime and murder in connection with Suale’s death.

The Attorney General explained that the decision to discontinue the case was based on the Police’s failure to gather sufficient evidence, noting that the sketch of the suspects did not match the accused and that call records allegedly placing Koranteng near the crime scene were not adequate grounds for prosecution.

Ahmed Suale, a key member of the Tiger Eye P.I. investigative team, was shot and killed in Madina in January 2019 by unknown assailants. His murder drew widespread condemnation and renewed calls for justice and better protection for journalists in Ghana.

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