I don’t know anything about J.B. Danquah Adu’s death – Daniel Asiedu

Daniel Aseidu, the man accused of killing J.B. Danquah Adu, Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, has denied ever entering the lawmaker’s house to kill him.

Asiedu aka Sexy Don Don also rejected claims by the Police that his foot and fingerprints were found in the MP’s house.

“If I have never been to the house of the MP, how can my footprints be found in his house,” he quizzed.

“I don’t know anything about the MP’s death. I am innocent,” he told the Court amidst tears at some point.

Continuing with his evidence in chief before an Accra High Court, Asiedu said it was “people in authority who killed the MP, and they orchestrated a scheme to look that I killed J.B. Danquah Adu.

Led by his lawyer, Mr Yaw Dankwah, Asiedu said he did not know the deceased MP until his picture was shown to him by the Police. The accused said he was beaten and escorted to the MP’s House.

The accused also rejected claims of the Police, suggesting that after killing the MP, he handed over the stained knife to his supposed wife Jane to clean it.

“I don’t know the lady the Police said I gave a knife to clean. I only got to know her after she had returned from the prostitution business “

He asked why the Police refused to call the said wife to court to testify.

According to Asiedu, the lawmaker’s wife knew those who were after the life of her husband.

Asiedu wondered why the Police failed to call the alleged three police officers who were seen in the lawmaker’s house and why the Police declined to call the deceased’s wife, mother and children to testify whether they saw him in the house when the incident occurred.

He told the Court that he was innocent, adding from the picture shown to him by the Police, the lawmaker, who was taller and bigger than him, could have kicked him in the air and that he could never have overpowered him with the knife the Police said he had.

When his counsel asked him how he came by the name Sexy Don Don, Asiedu told the Court that it was the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, who gave him that name.

According to him, in school, he was known as Daniel Asiedu aka “Gucci Young Star.”

Asiedu is expected to be cross-examined by Principal State Attorney Sefakor Batsa on Thursday, November 14, 2024.

The accused is to have gruesomely murdered the MP in his house at East Legon in February 2016.

He was charged with conspiring with one Vincent Bossu. Bossu was however acquitted by the Court after defence counsel filed a submission of no case.

Asiedu was asked by the Court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, a Court of Appeal Judge, sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court Judge, to open his defence in the matter.

He is standing trial on the charge of murder.

Asiedu has however pleaded not guilty to murder.

source: GNA