The mother of the final slain Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Joana Yabani, has revealed she has stopped working for almost one and a half years now, following the death of her daughter.
According to Joana Deladem Yabani’s mother, her daughter played a significant role in promoting their company whenever she was on vacation.
Speaking in an interview shared on X, Joana Deladem Yabani’s mother stated, “When she comes home, she helps promote our company. We were even planning to make her the face of the company because she would market the products, and people genuinely liked her”.
“So, I’ve stopped working for almost one and a half years now since the incident happened. Whenever we went out, clients would ask, ‘Where is Joana?’ Some of them didn’t even know she was the one who died on the KNUST campus,” she recounted.
“They would ask, ‘Where is my friend?’ and I would break down in tears. So, I stopped going out and stopped working for some time. It’s only now that we are beginning to revive the company again because we were all devastated,” she added.
She added, “I don’t think she has been treated fairly at all. She was such a good person. It pains me that people who didn’t know her wrote all those things about her”.
“I’m not using ‘she was’; she is still a good person. Wherever I go, people who knew her still say, ‘That’s your daughter,’” she added.
In that same interview, Joana Deladem Yabani’s mother revealed her daughter fell in love with a young man with the heart of a beast.
She lamented, “There’s a picture flying about that they’ve killed somebody, a lady at KNUST. The picture looks like your daughter. She only fell in love with a young man with the heart of a beast”.
“27th February will be a date I’ll never forget in my life until I return to my maker,” she said.
She added, “The camera has been able to pick whoever did it. His act has been captured. But my daughter is gone forever. I read something somewhere that he sent to my daughter. He said the mirror that once told him, ‘You are beautiful,’ has now become a deadly weapon in the hands of the same person. I was like, ‘Wow.’”
“We want to thank this school. At least they had cameras that could pick out evildoers like Daniel Tuffuor. They only have to be fair and just. Otherwise, my daughter’s blood will speak, and it will shock people. This is a spiritual matter.”
It will be recalled that Daniel Tuffuor is standing trial for murdering his girlfriend, a 21-year-old final-year student, Joana Yabani.
The Police investigations revealed that the deceased and the suspect were in a relationship.
The accused Tuffuor was arrested on Thursday, February 27, 2025, after Joana’s lifeless body was discovered on campus earlier that morning.
The university’s security service, upon being alerted to the incident, promptly reported it to the police. Also, CCTV footage reportedly captured a man, alleged to be Tuffuor, strangling Joana to death following an altercation.
Meanwhile, the sisters of Joana Yabani have appealed for an expedited legal process.
Joana Yabani’s family are calling on the Inspector General of Police, the Attorney General, the judges handling the case, and all relevant authorities to expedite the legal process and deliver justice without further delay.
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