The remains of a missing lecturer from the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) have been recovered by the police under unsettling circumstances.
Authorities claim that a formal police investigation was initiated when the lecturer, Professor Amedeke, was reported missing by his family.
The professor was secretly buried in his own home in Gyahadze, a Central Region neighborhood of Winneba, police found after preliminary investigations.
In order to ascertain the precise cause of death, investigators have since excavated his remains and moved it to a medical institution for preservation and autopsy.
In relation to the matter, one person has been taken into custody and is presently helping investigators. Police say further information will be released as the inquiry continues, but the circumstances behind the professor’s death are yet unknown.