Man jumps to death from Trust Towers building

A man believed to be in his 50’s died instantly when he allegedly fell from the ninth floor of the Trust Towers Building at Adabraka in Accra.

The man, believed to be a lecturer at the University of Ghana, Clarus Kwabena Sekyi,

Sakyi, was also said to be a one-time former ambassador to France, AU and Algeria.

The Adabraka Police, who are  investigating the incident, told the Daily Graphic that crime scene investigators found a mobile phone on the deceased, while a pair of brown shoes belonging to the deceased was found on the ninth floor of the office complex.

The investigators said although the mobile phone was damaged, the SIM card was removed and put into another phone for them to contact the numbers on the  SIM card.

This, they said, enabled them to contact the Registrar of the University of Ghana, who confirmed the deceased was a lecturer.

The police said the investigators also managed to contact the wife and the son of the deceased, but they declined further comments, saying further investigations into the death were underway.

 Some of the security persons at the complex told the police that  they heard a loud sound apparently from the fall of the deceased.

The cleanly shaven Kwabena Takyi wore a white and  blue-striped shirt over a pair of grey trousers and lay face down with his left arm broken and a ghastly opening under his left foot.

The incident drew a large crowd of workers and passers-by to the scene.

SOURCE: Della Russel Ocloo, Daily Graphic, Thur May 24, 2012