A tragic discovery has been made in the case of a missing Ghana Immigration Service officer, whose partly burnt body was found near Abuom Junction, close to Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region—five days after he was last seen.
The deceased, 38-year-old Steffen King Amoah, popularly known as Nana Kofi, was reported missing on July 4, 2025, after he failed to return home and was unreachable by phone. His family, concerned by his sudden disappearance, filed a missing person’s report with the Taifa Police around 4:30 p.m. that same day.
Relatives say Amoah had informed his household that he was heading out from his residence at Gye Nyame House, Musuku Junction in Kwabenya, to meet a friend at Ashongman Estate for a discussion. That was the last time he was seen alive.
His body was discovered days later near the Abuom-Abokobi road, wrapped in a woolen carpet and set on fire—an apparent attempt by the perpetrators to conceal the crime. The body bore multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck, suggesting a violent attack.
Family members identified the body before it was transported to the Police Hospital Mortuary. Amoah’s brother, Akwasi Amoako, confirmed the tragic news to Myjoyonline.com, expressing the family’s devastation.
Steffen King Amoah hailed from Old Tafo in Kumasi and joined the Ghana Immigration Service in 2013. He was widely known within the Service’s Sports Department at the national headquarters.
He married his longtime partner, a police officer, in March 2018 at Tafo Nhyiaeso. The couple has two young children—a four-year-old son and a five-month-old baby.
Meanwhile, police have arrested and arraigned a 36-year-old man believed to be a close friend of the deceased. The suspect appeared before the Kwabenya Circuit Court on Monday, July 8, 2025, and has been remanded into custody pending further investigations.
Though the motive behind the killing has not been officially confirmed, sources suggest that Amoah may have gone to retrieve an amount of GH₵20,000 from the suspect on the day he disappeared.
Police investigations into the case are ongoing.
