The Accra Regional Police Command Wednesday morning suddenly called off a press conference on the murder of Abuakwa North MP JB Danquah Adu, explaining the case has been transferred.

The Police Command said the Police Criminal Investigations Department at the National Headquarters will now handle the case.

The MP died yesterday of multiple stab wounds and so far 5 persons comprising three males and two females have been arrested in connection with the killing.

Joy News’ Raymond Acquah who was at the aborted press conference said about 20 journalists were gathered for what the police said will be daily briefings following the politician’s murder.

But Accra regional police PRO ASP Efia Tenge who announced the decision to cancel the briefing explained national headquarters had directed the transfer.

The police are under public spotlight to find the killer(s) of the Abuakwa North MP who was attacked in his bedroom Tuesday dawn. The circumstances surrounding his murder has fueled suspicions that it was a contract killing. The opposition New Patriotic Party has said it suspects foul play in the murder.

The party has called on the government to take a critical look and revise its policies and strategies towards the growing levels of insecurity and unsolved murders in the country.

But while admitting that the incident was a clear case of "murder on our hands," lawyer and criminologists Prof Ken Attafuah has said suggestions of political and contract killing must not be made at this time.

He said the danger of assuming that the murder of JB Danquah was either due to contract or political killing is to foreclose other possible clues

He said he is also saddened by the seeming haste with which police investigators have handed the crime scene to the family of the murdered MP.

While he will not question the competence of the police investigators, Prof Attafuah believes the police ought to have spent a lot more time in gathering more evidence at the Shiashie residence of the deceased MP.