
P&P reports that in the face of the recent mysterious killings
of Ghanaians in what has become known as “contract killings,” security
conscious people are now taking every threat with utmost seriousness.
Against this background,”the music man” Kojo Antwi became alarmed when he recently received text messages threatening him with death.
At the time of filing this story, the criminal investigations
department(CID) of the Ghana police service has taken up the matter and
promised to unmasked the person or those behind the threatening
messages and bring them to book.
Although the music legend himself would not comment on the issue
because the case is still under police investigations, a source close
to him confirmed that Kojo Antwi had indeed received a series of
threatening messages.
The source who spoke to P&P on a strict condition of anonymity
alleged that the messages, which usually come to the musician’s phone
during the night, state among other things that some assassins had been
hired to eliminate him and that he should be on the look out.
According to the source, Kojo Antwi initially did not take the
message seriously but decided to take action due to the frequent of the
messages.
As usual, this allege threat on the life of the music man has led to
various conspiracy theories and tongue wagging within showbiz circles.
Some musicians who spoke to P&P alleges that those faceless
people might have threatened Kojo Antwi due to his recent
announcement to contest the presidency of the up and coming MUSIGA
elections.
Those sending the messages are people who do not want people like
Kojo Antwi, who can change the fortunes of the country’s musicians and
want to scare him away.
Others also opined that the threat on the musician’s life had
nothing to do with the impending elections. To the latter group,the
musician might have his own personal problems with someone
necessitating the allege threat.