Family demands justice for farmer killed in Asante Akim

The family of a 51-year-old farmer killed by unknown persons last month at Tokwai Kokoben in the Asante Akim South District of the Ashanti Region has called on the police to step up investigations into the matter.

The family said that with the perpetrators yet to be identified, the situation had put fear into the people in the area, as they do not know who would be the next victim.

“Now, the people don’t feel safe in the area again. Because of the killing, they now move in pairs when they are going to the farm. 

Worrying

“This is a worrying development because there is so much fear around,” a family member, ACP Brain Kofi Ntiamoah (rtd), told the Daily Graphic last Monday.

The farmer, Kwadwo Asamoah, was killed on September 23, 2025, after he went to farm and did not return home.

His body was discovered near a stream close to his farm with his intestines gushing out, indicating he was slashed in the abdomen by the attackers on September 23, 2025.

Asamoah, who is said to have lost his wife two years ago, left behind four children – three girls and a boy, all aged between seven and 12.

Following the discovery of the body of Asamoah, ACP Ntiamoah (rtd) said the matter was reported to the police, who picked up the body and deposited it in a morgue.
Postmortem, he said, was yet to be carried out on the body.

Scene

At the scene where the body was found, he said there was no blood stain around or signs of a struggle, an indication that he was killed somewhere and then later dumped near his farm, where the food and machete he took with him were seen.

“The area is close to the River Pra and a galamsey-prone zone.

We don’t know who killed him, and that is why we are demanding justice by deploying more police to the place to carry out investigations.

“This is a cocoa-growing community, but because of the situation, people are now afraid of going to the farm.

First, people could move as individuals to pluck their cocoa, but now the situation is not the same.

When you don’t have anybody to accompany you, you cannot go to the farm,” he explained.

ACP Ntiamoah (rtd) appealed to the government to send crack investigators to the area to unravel the killing.

The surviving children, he said, were with their grandmother.