Cleaner confesses to involvement in UG lecturer’s murder
The cleaner mentioned other accomplices
Jonas Danquah 
A cleaner of the late Prof Emmanuel Benneh has confessed his involvement in the murder of the University of Ghana lecturer, state prosecutors have said.
The prosecution told the Kaneshie District Court that the cleaner mentioned two other accomplices. One is on the run and the other remanded.
The confession has caused the state to drop charges against three others - Isaac Botchwey, Christian Pobee and Adams Mensah.
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State prosecutors on September 16 pressed the charge of murder against four persons namely Christian Pobee, James Nana Womba, Isaac Botchwey, and Adams Mensah Mansur.
James Nana Womba, a cleaner at the late lecturer’s residence is the one said to have finessed his involvement.
One Opambour Agya Badu who prosecutors describe as a named accomplice of Mr. Womba has since been arrested and charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
The state prosecutors says efforts are underway to apprehend the two others as they got the court to grant them an arrest warrant.
The names of the two were not stated in court.
The two persons currently standing trial have been remanded in the custody of the police to re-appear on October 14.
