Solomon Owusu, a member of the political group, Movement for Change, has quizzed the Ghana Police Service on whether they are trying to throw dust into the eyes of Ghanaians.
According to Solomon Owusu, the Ghana Police Service knows the identity of the perpetrators in the 2019 murder of investigative journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale.
Solomon Owusu challenged the police service’s claim of being unable to solve the Hussein-Suale murder.
He cited a past case where the police were able to locate the buried remains of murder victims Kwaku Ninja and Taller, despite the fundamental difficulties.
Speaking on TV3 New Day, Solomon Owusu stated, “The truth of the matter is that it has not been better. But you have to improve upon it. We need to cause our police institution to be professional. They know the killers. And I still insist they know them.
If they were able to identify a corpse, a dead body [Kwaku Ninja and Taller] that was buried beneath the earth without their knowledge, then they have no business telling me that they do not know the killers of Ahmed Suale”, Owusu argued.
He noted, “Especially when we are told by our witness that even the guy who shot, he had to do a goodbye kiss to the dead body… That the guy is so happy that he has been able to kill a human being.
It means there could be a vivid description of the culprit. So, how did they get it wrong by going to arrest a wrong culprit when you have the image of the person that has been described? Are you trying to throw dust into the eyes of the people?”, he quizzed.
Solomon Owusu further demanded greater transparency, “So, they have to come again. I’m not too sure this ends the case. They must rather go back to what is right. The police administration must speak the truth. Tell us who was behind it”.
“Any murder that happens in this country it must not affect big fish in society. But any ordinary person or people that you consider as nonentities, they must be of interest… so that everyone can be working in this country with confidence, not fearing anything that happens. Because nobody is above the law”, he added.
Also, Kwesi Botchwey Jnr, an aide to former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said the investigators involved in the murder case of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale must be sanctioned.
Mr Botchwey Jnr contended that the investigators responsible must be punished for their poor investigation and wasting judicial resources, dragging the case out for 6 years.
Speaking on Breakfast Daily on Channel One TV on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Mr Botchwey said, “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 added.
Their 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.
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.