Police arrest one suspect in connection with murder of Adu Boahen’s son

The police have arrested one suspect in connection with the murder of Dr Christopher Adu Boahen, the son of former presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Professor Adu Boahen.

The police said in a statement on Tuesday that they received a complaint from relatives of the deceased that he had been found dead in his room under suspicious circumstances. a team of investigators and crime scene experts immediately visited the scene and commenced investigations.

“The suspect is in custody and will be put before the court while investigations continue,” the police statement said.

Christopher Adu Boahen, the son of the historian and New Patriotic Party stalwart Professor Albert Adu Boahen has lost his life after armed robbers allegedly attacked him at his home in East Legon, in the Greater Accra Region.

The armed robbers are said to have broken into his house, ransacked his home, and killed him in the process.

The late Christopher Adu Boahen was a physically challenged person.

In a post on Facebook, his 1995 year group at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), where Christopher studied electrical engineering, announced that some “wicked persons” had taken his life.

The deceased man’s father was the NPP’s presidential candidate in 1992, in the first elections held in Ghana after the country’s return to democracy under the Fourth Republic.

Christopher Adu Boahen was a brother of Charles Adu Boahen, who served both as a deputy minister for finance and then as minister of state at the Ministry of Finance in the Akufo-Addo government.

Charles Adu Boahen resigned from government in November 2022 after an expose by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas implicated him and some financial deals, which sparked nationwide conversations.