The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has apprehended a 29-year-old man they suspect is one of the killers of undercover investigator and a key member of Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ Tiger Eye Private Investigations team, Ahmed Hussein-Suale.
The suspect Abdul-Rashid Meizongo was arrested by the Accra Regional Special Weapons and Tactical (SWAT) team of the police upon police intelligence.
He was nabbed at the West Hill Mall at Weija in the Ga South Municipality yesterday.
The acting Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCOP) kweku Boadu Peprah, who confirmed the arrest said Meizongo was grabbed around 10:30am.
According to him, the suspect had wanted to bribe the arresting team with an amount of GH¢20,000 to set him free but it was declined.
“He is presently in our custody and we are also preparing to hand him over to the CID headquarters for further interrogations and investigations.”
Ahmed was shot three times, twice in the chest and another in the neck on January 16, 2019, at Madina in Accra by unidentified men, while he was driving home on a motorbike.
The deceased was one of Tiger Eye journalists whose photographs were circulated in ‘Who Watches the Watchman,’ a documentary by Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong that criticised Anas’ work.
The Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police Maame Yaw Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, at a press conference organised a week ago, revealed that two key witnesses were assisting forensic artists to come out with artistic images of the killers to aid in their investigations.
She mentioned that so far 13 people have been questioned in the course of their investigations while one is on remand.
Family members of the murdered Tiger Eye operative have been invited by the police following the breakthrough.
