Taxi driver arrested for allegedly killing his 23-year-old girlfriend

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested a 34-year-old taxi driver in connection with the alleged murder of his long-time partner, Dorothy Aowusu Annor, popularly called Maa Abena.

Robert Kwabena Boamah was arrested at his hideout in Namong in the Offinso Municipality on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, three days after going into hiding.

Maa Abena, was allegedly picked up by her boyfriend in his taxi from her family’s house in Abuakwa on April 21.

The police said they received a distress call after they discovered the body of an unnamed female shortly after the two lovers had left the deceased’s family house.

According to DSP Godwin Ahianyo, head of the Public Affairs Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, police proceeded to the scene at a spot near Mighty Jesus Educational Complex at Dominase in the Kwadaso Municipality and found the body of the late Maa Abena with multiple stab wounds.

Police also retrieved the mobile phone of the deceased in the suspect’s taxi with registration AS8575-Y, with its ignition key still on at the scene.

The suspect, Robert Kwabena Boamah, was later spotted and arrested at his hideout at Namong in Offinso on Wednesday, April 23.

DSP Ahianyo says Boamah, during interrogation, confessed his involvement in the crime and also confessed to attempting to take his own life.

He has since been treated and discharged from the Abuakwa Polyclinic following the attempt on his life.