GYABAAH
V.
THE REPUBLIC

OSEI-HWERE J.A.: There lived in the village of Amaasu-Pampaso near Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Brong-Ahafo Region a man called Opanin Kwasi Aidoo alias Simon Aidoo. By repute he was a devout Roman Catholic whose kindness was said to know no bounds. On the night of 26 June 1979, he left home to seek spiritual solace in the Roman Catholic Church. By 11.20 pm he had not come home and his family got alarmed. Later that night his dead body was discovered lying some 30 yards from the sanctuary of his worship. The following morning the body was conveyed to the Sunyani Central Hospital where Dr Apraku, now deceased, carried out an autopsy. The body was later buried at a village in Ashanti called Sakra Wono, from which the deceased hailed.

It appears that if the Amaasu-Pampaso Police who had the first advantage of coming face to face with death of Opanin Kwasi Aidoo had set in motion any serious investigative process it soon was lulled. For it was one month (almost) after his death that a detective …