A 44-year-old lawyer, Kofi Yawson-Adjei, yesterday dedicated suicide by hanging himself. As said by Ghanaweb, Yawson-Adjei, who's the Secretary of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GIS) and valuers, hanged himself in his personal workplace on the primary ground of a rented premises at Adabraka.
The father of three is said to have left his Kokomlemle residence about three a.m. for his workplace (in a taxi), the place the incident came about.
He left a written word directing a girl named Narh to offer a signed cheque for GH¢three,000 to his spouse.
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 workforce acquired to the scene about 11 a.m., pockets of residents had gathered discussing the difficulty.
Personnel from the Homicide Unit of the Ghana Police Service had been additionally on the scene to convey the physique to the Police Hospital mortuary.
The elder sister of the deceased wouldn't permit members of the media to enter the workplace the place the deceased was discovered hanging.
An image captured on a cell phone, nevertheless, confirmed the deceased carrying a white T-shirt and a crimson boxer’s shorts and hanging from the ceiling with a rope round his neck.
The Chairman of the Valuation Estate Surveying Division of the GIS, Mr Emmanuel Martey, who was on the scene of the incident, instructed the media that Yawson-Adjei was with the members of the division who had gone to Dodowa final Saturday for the marking of scripts of new members who had been being admitted to the establishment.
“We had carried out examination for our trainees for admission to membership, so we determined that we transfer exterior Accra to have time and focus to mark after which do peer assessment.
“I used to be marking with him when he started complaining about being clean and being unable to understand what he was marking. I requested him on a variety of events to go and relaxation,” he said.
As said by Mr. Martey, Yawson-Adjei took the remainder and got here again after two hours however nonetheless complained of having gone clean.
On Sunday night, he took Yawson-Adjei to the Valley View University Hospital for remedy, and on arrival the nurse noticed him and said.his blood strain was very excessive as a result of he had gone by a lot stress.
“They gave us prescription and I took him again to the resort. But he was nonetheless weak so we organized for him to be taken house.
“I referred to as his house this morning (yesterday) to search out out his standing, however I used to be instructed that one thing had occurred and that he left house round three a.m. Apparently, they did not know the place he was till they found him in his personal workplace,” he said.
Another supply instructed the Daily Graphic that his spouse had referred to as to inform Yawson-Adjei’s elder sister that her brother had left house at daybreak and was nowhere to be discovered.
“It was when the sister dashed here around 6 a.m. that she discovered his body hanging,” the supply said.
A neighbour who pleaded anonymity said.he had seen the deceased arrive on the workplace constructing located behind the CUA Building about four 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 pal and neighbour of Yawson-Adjei, Mr Dan Agyekum, who was distraught on the flip of occasions, said.he was but to grasp the reason for his pal’s dying.
“Just last Thursday he signed my daughter’s university forms,” he mentioned, and added: “I even saw him on Friday and we chatted.”
Yawson-Adjei , he mentioned, didn't present any signal of getting an issue.
The Accra Regional Police Command confirmed the incident.
Mr Emmanuel Larweh, a surveyor who labored with Yawson-Adjei in the identical constructing, instructed the Daily Graphic that Yawson-Adjei appeared hale and hearty when he noticed him final Friday, 20 September, 2013.
“He even handed over my portion of the scripts to be marked,” he said.