According to ghana news agency:aangu in the Nadowli-Kaleo District, died at the Naro Immigration checkpoint in that District on Friday, March 7, 2025, when the officers purportedly took him through ‘frog jumps’ during which he died. The officers were Senior Inspector Adjei Boadi Philip, aged 36; AICO II Abdulai Rawuf Abubakar, aged 22; AICO II Nkrumah Alex, aged 33; and AICO II Philip Oppong, aged 28, all stationed at Nadowli-Kaleo District. The two others in the case were Pogee Antaa Julius, aged 38, a Unit Committee Chairman of Naro Electoral Area and a farmer, and Logu Seidu, aged 49, a farmer based at Naro.
The case was withdrawn following the advice of Mr. Abdul-Shakuur Saeed, the Principal State Attorney in the Upper West Region to the court, presided over by His Worship Maxwell Maxibrian Titriku, after a review of the autopsy report conducted on the victim, Patrick Banoebuuri. Mr. Saeed, in the advice, indicated that the post-mortem report on the cause of death of Patrick Banoebuuri identified the cause of death as ‘Acute Subdural Hematoma and Blunt force Head Trauma’. He, however, explained that the police’s examination of the deceased at the checkpoint revealed assault marks on the back, arms, and buttocks which did not indicate assault to the head.
He said: ‘The medical cause of death does not appear to be connected to the assault that police observed when they examined the body of the deceased. This will raise a reasonable doubt in the trial of the suspects herein. To sustain a conviction for murder or manslaughter, prosecution would require direct evidence or circumstantial evidence, which leads to one conclusion that it was the conduct of the suspects herein, and only that, which led to the death of Patrick Banoebuuri. In the absence of direct or circumstantial evidence that leads to one conclusion that it was the conduct of the suspects that led to the death of Patrick Banoebuuri, and further considering the reasonable doubt likely to be raised at trial, a charge of murder cannot be sustained against the suspects herein’, Mr. Saeed explained in the advice.
According to the facts of the case presented to the court, Patrick Banoebuuri, now deceased, allegedly stole 18 sheep on 6th March 2025 and was arrested by the members of the community. A total of 14 out of the 18 alleged stolen sheep were retrieved, and he was set free. On 7th March 2025, Pogee Antaa Julius, the Unit Committee Chairman and Logu Seidu, reportedly led a group from Naro to apprehend Patrick Banoebuuri at his house at Piree-Kaangu for failing to produce the remaining four sheep. He was handed over to suspects Senior Inspector Adjei Boadi Philip, AICO II Abdulai Rawuf Abubakar, AICO II Nkrumah Alex, and AICO II Philip Oppong, who were on duty at the Immigration Checkpoint at Naro to be disciplined. According to the facts, suspects Senior Inspector Adjei Boadi Philip, AICO II Abdulai Rawuf Abubakar, AICO II Nkrumah Alex, and AICO II Philip Oppong ‘received the deceased in good health and took him through ‘frog jump’ during which the deceased died.’