Nana Amponsem Darko II, 62, chief of Atronie in the Brong Ahafo Region has been arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in the gruesome murder of Anthony Yeboah Boateng, Presiding Member of the Asunafo District Assembly on April 8. He was on Monday invited by the Sunyani Divisional Police Command interrogated and therefore detained. Chief Superintendent Christian Tetteh Yohunu, Commander of the Divisional said that Nana Darko would be put before court soon, charged with abetment of crime. Mr Yeboah Boateng was murdered by the irate youth at Atronie on suspicion of being a ritual murderer. He was traveling in his car with the company of his wife, a nun and a nurse from Sunyani to Goaso with a relative’s corpse for preservation at the Goaso Government hospital mortuary. When they got to Atronie, some youth of the town blocked the main road. On searching the car, they confronted Mr Boateng for carrying a corpse which they suspected was for ritual purposes. Before he could offer any explanation, the youth attacked him with sticks and stones until he fell dead. The women were however saved by a police man. The youth then vandalized the deceased’s car. Twenty seven people including the queen mother of the town are currently on trial for the murder of the deceased who was also the Administrator of the Goaso Government Hospital. Police sources say that Darko played a major role in the murder. According to the sources, when the deceased was confronted by the youth, Nana Darko, the chief who was at his palace just about 100 meters from the scene was informed but instead of intervening he instructed the youth to “finish” him. With Nana’s instruction, the youth brutalized the deceased until he died. Asked why it took them all this long to arrest the chief, the source said if the police had arrested him earlier, it would have hampered their investigations. Source: The Ghanaian Times