Victor Kwadjoga Adawudu, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Legal and Communication Team, has backed the Attorney General’s decision to discontinue the Ahmed Suale murder case.
According to Victor Kwadjoga Adawudu, investigators must be professional in their work and not go to court with shoddy jobs.
He commended the Attorney General for taking a bold decision to discontinue the case when the evidence brought could not convict.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Wednesday, October 15, Lawyer Adawudu stated, “For me, this should be an eye-opener. This is something we should look at and go back to the drawing board and look at it and give a specimen. We should be professionals. We must improve the way we do investigations. This case should speak to the conscience of the investigators and authorities. I want the investigators to speak the truth.”
“I think some of the people at the top make things difficult for the younger ones. And some of the investigators, too, the system doesn’t have money for them to travel and do all these investigations. And they do armchair investigations.
He added, “I think that if the system is being researched, and we’re being bold for authorities to speak the truth. Let us be bold to speak truth to authority. We need to come to the logical conclusion of the killing of Ahmed Suale so that it never happens again”
“I commend the Attorney General for being bold. Reasons why it will also be discontinued, as he has given, which is that the evidence that has been brought cannot convict. That means you will go to court and do a shoddy job. If they find facts which connect him [suspect], he can be brought back,” he said.
His comment came after the AG discontinued prosecution in the murder case of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale.
The Madina District Court has discharged the accused following a directive from the Attorney General’s Office.
According to reports, the prosecution, led by Nana Afua Bamfoa Bamfo, informed the court on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, that “They had been directed by the Attorney General, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, to discontinue the case”.
The Madina District Court, presided over by Susan Nyarkotey, subsequently discharged Daniel Owusu Koranteng and disposed of the case.
It will be recalled, in 2019, Ahmed Suale, a key member of the Tiger Eye P.I. investigative team, was shot and killed in January by unknown assailants.
His murder ignited a national and international outrage, with demands for justice from press freedom advocates and human rights organisations.
Owusu Koranteng was later arrested following joint investigations by the FBI and Ghanaian law enforcement authorities.
The suspect was charged with abetment of crime and murder in connection with the death of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale; he, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
According to the prosecution, the suspect led two other alleged culprits currently at large to the home of Ahmed-Hussein Suale, where he was eventually shot and killed by unknown assailants.
Ahmed Suale was a member of the Tiger Eye PI investigative team led by Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
In court, the A-G’s legal opinion, grounded in a meticulous analysis of the police docket.
They concluded that the claimed call records used to implicate Mr Koranteng were inconclusive and failed to establish any direct or circumstantial link between him and the commission of the offence.
They further added that none of the sketches generated by the police based on vivid descriptions of the eyewitnesses resemble the accused Mr Koranteng.
The Attorney-General then advised that the prosecution redirect its investigative efforts toward identifying and apprehending the principal perpetrators of the heinous crime.
Meanwhile, the two unidentified gunmen who executed the fatal attack remain at large six years after the incident.
His discharge reaffirms the underlying legal principle that an accused person is recognised as innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.