Four officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and two farmers in the Nadowli-Kaleo District are in police custody over the death of one Patrick Banoebuuri, a farmer in the Piree-Kaangu community in the area.
The Wa District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship Maxwell Maxibrian Titriku, remanded the six suspects into custody to assist the police in investigations into the circumstances that led to the victim's death.
The suspects-Senior Inspector Adjei Boadi Philip, aged 36; Assistant Immigration Control Officer II (AICO) Abdulai Rawuf Abubakar, aged 22; AICO II Nkrumah Alex, aged 33; and AICO II Philip Oppong, aged 28-all GIS officers stationed at Nadowli, were charged with murder.
Suspects Pogee Antaa Julius, aged 38, a Unit Committee Chairman of the Noro Electoral Area and a farmer, and Logu Seidu, a 49-year-old relative of Patrick Banoebuuri, the deceased farmer based in Naro, were also charged with abetment of crime to wit, murder.
