22-year-old KNUST student murdered over GH¢300 debt

A 22-year-old student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Nana Kwaku Adu Gyamfi, has been murdered.

The student, in the Biological Science department who is currently in level 200 was killed by his friend at Sewua on Friday, April 22, 2022, in an attempt to avoid payment of GH¢300 debt.

He was found dead in a bush at Sewua.

The police said after an inspection of the body, they found a swollen neck and blood oozing from the nostrils adding that a stick suspected to have been used to hit the deceased was also found about twenty meters away from the body.

The Police later arrested his 25-year-old friend, Emmanuel Boateng, who confessed to the police that he owed the deceased GH¢300, and to avoid paying the money, he killed him.

According to the police, the deceased visited Emmanuel at home at Esaso-Kwablafo near Esereso and the two later went out but he [Nana Gyamfi] did not return home until his body was discovered dead in the bush.

The suspect told the police that he lured the deceased to the bushes and murdered him.

He also stole an iPhone 11 pro max phone from the deceased, which has been retrieved by the police.

DSP Godwin Ahianyo, the Public Relations Officer for the Ashanti Regional Police Command, said the suspect lured the deceased to a nearby [location] and killed him. According to the suspect, he owed the deceased an amount of GH¢300 and couldn’t pay up when he (the deceased) came asking, for which reason he killed him.

We find the story a little hard to believe because why will he resort to taking his friend’s life over GH¢300? We suspect there is more and we are going to ensure we get the full details, he added.

The body of Nana Gyamfi has since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital morgue.

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