Tension is brewing with heavy police presence at Offinso, as one person is feared dead and another has sustained life-threatening gunshot injury in a chieftaincy dispute in Offinso, in the Ashanti region, last Thursday May 20, 2021 in the afternoon.
Kwame Appiagyei, believed to be his late 30s, was shot in the rib after he had allegedly shot one person in an attempt to disperse a crowd at Offinso Akwamuhene’s palace at Asamankama, a suburb of Offinso, in the Ashanti region last Thursday afternoon.
The Chronicle gathered that it all started when the royal family attempted to select a successor for the late chief for Asamankama, Nana AsamoahOkyere, who passed on about three years ago.
According to our source, the family had settled on one OseiBonsu, who was picked from the four names presented by four families within the royal Bretuo family, yet one of the families objected to the decision, when the Queen mother announced the successor.
As a result, a scuffle ensued as the deceased went to his private car and reached for a pump action gun and shot one man in the head.
Heading for his car and attempting to speed off, he was pounced on by an enraged mob who lynched him on the spot and damaged his car.
Meanwhile, Mavis Opoku Agyemang, sister to the deceased, has disclosed that her deceased brother was shot by macho men from the other faction when he was leaving the palace to his private vehicle, after he had been identified as a member of the other faction and got shot in the ribs instantly.
The body has since been deposited at St. Patrick’s Hospital morgue for autopsy. At the time of filing this report last Friday evening, the police had not made any arrest.
The police are on a manhunt for four persons, whose names came up for lynching Kwame Appiagyei.
The injured victim, who is on admission at St. Patrick’s Hospital at Offinso, is believed to be among a faction which opposed the queenmother’s choice at the palace.
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