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Ghanaian police officers have arrested a suspect and ex-convict accused of sexually abusing and murdering his wife’s niece in the Western Region.
Olivia Et Adiku, the Head of the Public Affairs Unit, in a statement issued on Thursday, said the 45-year-old suspect, Kudjo Ntow, sealed the mouth of his wife’s 17-year-old niece, Olivia Kwofie, at Agona Nkwanta.
“On 01 June 2026, suspect Kudjo Ntow, an ex-convict, sealed the mouth of the deceased with super glue, forcibly raped and murdered her and went into hiding after committing the act,” said Adiku.
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“Preliminary Police investigations revealed that on 01 June 2026 at 0330 hrs, one Samuel Kingsford Kwofie was on his way to his rubber plantation when he heard someone shouting for help around School B area close to the Fire Service Station at Agona Nkwanta.”
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“He approached the scene and found victim Olivia Kwofie, aged 17, sitting naked on the ground with both hands and legs tied with a rope.”
Adiku added that Kwofie untied the victim and, while he was escorting her to the Police Station, Ntow attacked them from behind, hit the victim with a cement block and fled.
According to Adiku, the police, upon receipt of the information, visited the scene and found the victim lying in a pool of blood with multiple cuts on her face.
The victim was taken to the Agona Nkwanta Polyclinic for medical treatment but was later pronounced dead.
Ntow was thereafter arrested by the Regional Police Intelligence team, together with the Agona Nkwanta Police, at his hideout in Nsuaem on June 2, 2026.
He was arraigned the following day at the Apollo Circuit Court in Takoradi and was remanded in prison custody to reappear on June 17, 2026.
