MAN 20 ARRESTED BY POLICE (Page 28)

29/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah

A 20-year-old man, who was found with a knife and a naked boy about four years old at the beach late in the night, is in police custody.
The suspect, Daniel Andoh, alias Paa Dan, whose behaviour attracted two men who were also at the beach, could not explain what he was doing there at the time of the night and whether the boy was his son.
According to the Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Dompreh??????, on Monday April 21, 2008, two men from Chorkor Lante Maami went to the beach at about 11pm and while sitting on the sand, they spotted a young man who reportedly looked jittery and was looking round as if to make sure nobody else was there.
He said the two men suspected Paa Dan was up to something, so they drew closer to him and as they approached the scene they saw the naked boy sitting on a stone shivering.
The PRO said when the suspect saw the two men, he attempted to run away but he was caught and when he was asked what he was doing there at that time with the boy, he claimed the boy was his son and that his wife had gone to the market to sell used clothing, so he was waiting for her.
His explanation did not go down well with the two who apprehended him and handed him over to the Chorkor police.
During interrogation ,he told the police that he lived at Mallam, near Accra, but he found the boy loitering near the Kaneshie market, so he picked him up.
He could , however, not explain to the police why he took the boy to the beach and what he was doing with the knife.
Inspector Dompreh said the police caused an announcement to be made on some of the radio stations in the city and one Kwabena Darku, a shoemaker at the Total Filling Station at Kaneshie, came and identified the boy as Kofi Asomani, his son, who had been reported missing.
He explained that Kofi went missing three days earlier while playing with his friends around the filling station and when all efforts to trace him proved futile, he made a report to the Kaneshie Police and later he heard his son had been found at Chorkor.