A private legal practitioner, Nana Obiri Boahen, has said that the wife of the late former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, JB Danquah, lacks the moral right to complain about the slow pace of investigation and prosecution by the state in her late husband’s case.
Ivy Heward-Mills, the wife of the late legislator, recently expressed concern over how long the case has dragged on.
She stated that it has been nine years since the tragic and untimely death of her husband, yet law enforcement authorities have not provided justice in the matter.
In a tribute to her late husband, while reflecting on his memory, Heward-Mills shared that the current developments in his case are deeply troubling to both her and the family.
She further questioned whether the family would ever receive justice and if the culprit would ever be held accountable, expressing concerns about their wavering faith in the country’s justice system.
“That indelible smile… Nine years have gone by … Will there ever be justice? It is not well. It is not well at all,” she posted on her Facebook page on Sunday, February 9, 2025.
However, Nana Obiri Boahen, who is also a former Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and has keenly followed the case in court, criticized Heward-Mills for not attending court sittings.
“JB Danquah’s wife wasn’t even present in court, so she doesn’t have the right to complain on social media,” he stated in an interview with Kasapa FM.
Nana Obiri Boahen further explained that he stopped following the case in court due to a lack of support.
“I stopped following JB Danquah’s case because, at one point, I seemed to be the only one who cared,” he added.
JB Danquah was murdered in cold blood during the early hours of February 9, 2016, after being attacked by unidentified assailants at his residence in Shiashie, near the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange in Accra.
The MP was believed to have been stabbed multiple times during the attack at around 1:45 a.m. on that fateful Tuesday, leading to his death.
The prime suspect in the case, Daniel Asiedu, was found not guilty by a seven-member jury in December 2024 on charges of robbery and murder.
However, an Accra High Court has ordered a retrial of the accused, ruling that under Section 285 of Act 30, the jury’s verdict was not legally acceptable. As a result, the jury was discharged, and Asiedu has since been remanded into lawful custody.
Credit: Ghanaweb.com
