A 44-year-old lawyer , Kofi Yawson-Adjei, yesterday
committed suicide by hanging himself. According to
Ghanaweb.com, Yawson-Adjei, who is the Secretary of the
Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GIS) and valuers, hanged
himself in his private office on the first floor of a rented
premises at Adabraka.
The father of three is said to have left his Kokomlemle
residence about 3 a.m. for his office (in a taxi), where the
incident took place.
He left a written note directing a lady named Narh to give
a signed cheque for GH¢3,000 to his wife.
Yawson-Adjei was with the Valuation Estate
and Surveying Division of the GIS and was Chief Executive
Officer of Property Lane Limited.
When the Daily Graphic team got to the scene about 11
a.m., pockets of residents had gathered discussing the issue.
Personnel from the Homicide Unit of the Ghana Police
Service were also at the scene to convey the body to the
Police Hospital mortuary.
The elder sister of the deceased would not allow members of
the media to enter the office where the deceased was
found hanging.
A picture captured on a mobile phone , however, showed the
deceased wearing a white T-shirt and a red boxer’s shorts
and hanging from the ceiling with a rope around his neck.
The Chairman of the Valuation Estate Surveying Division of
the GIS, Mr Emmanuel Martey, who was at the scene of the
incident, told the media that Yawson-Adjei was with the
members of the division who had gone to Dodowa last
Saturday for the marking of scripts of new members who
were being admitted to the institution.
“We had conducted examination for our trainees for
admission to membership, so we decided that we move
outside Accra to have time and concentrate to mark and
then do peer review.
“I was marking with him when he began complaining about
being blank and being unable to appreciate what he was
marking. I asked him on a number of occasions to go and
rest,” he said.
According to Mr. Martey, Yawson-Adjei took the rest and
came back after two hours but still complained of having
gone blank.
On Sunday evening, he took Yawson-Adjei to the Valley
View University Hospital for treatment, and on arrival the
nurse observed him and said his blood pressure was very
high because he had gone through so much stress.
“They gave us prescription and I took him back to the hotel.
But he was still weak so we arranged for him to be taken
home.
“I called his home this morning (yesterday) to find out his
status, but I was told that something had happened and that
he left home around 3 a.m. Apparently, they did not know
where he was until they discovered him in his own office,”
he said.
Another source told the Daily Graphic that his wife had
called to inform Yawson-Adjei’s elder sister that her brother
had left home at dawn and was nowhere to be found.
“It was when the sister dashed here around 6 a.m. that she
discovered his body hanging,” the source said.
A neighbour who pleaded anonymity said he had seen the
deceased arrive at the office building situated behind the
CUA Building about 4 a.m. in a taxi.
“He was in the car for about 10 minutes and then later got
out and went to his office. He was in T-shirt and boxer’s
shorts,” the neighbour said.
A friend and neighbour of Yawson-Adjei, Mr Dan Agyekum,
who was distraught at the turn of events, said he was yet
to understand the cause of his friend’s death.
“Just last Thursday he signed my daughter’s university
forms,” he said, and added: “I even saw him on Friday and
we chatted.”
Yawson-Adjei , he said, did not show any sign of having a
problem.
The Accra Regional Police Command confirmed the
incident.
Mr Emmanuel Larweh, a surveyor who worked with Yawson-
Adjei in the same building, told the Daily Graphic that
Yawson-Adjei looked hale and hearty when he saw him last
Friday, 20 September, 2013.
“He even handed over my portion of the scripts to be
marked,” he said.
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