Lawyer Commits Suicide In Office A 44-year-old lawyer, Kofi Yawson- Adjei, yesterday committed suicide by hanging himself.

According to Ghanaweb.com, Yawson-
Adjei, who is the Secretary of the Ghana
Institution of Surveyors (GIS) and
valuers, hanged himself in his private
office on the first floor of a rented
premises at Adabraka.
The father of three is said to have left his
Kokomlemle residence about 3 a.m. for
his office (in a taxi), where the incident
took place.
He left a written note directing a lady
named Narh to give a signed cheque for
GH¢3,000 to his wife.
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 team got to the
scene about 11 a.m., pockets of residents
had gathered discussing the issue.
Personnel from the Homicide Unit of the
Ghana Police Service were also at the
scene to convey the body to the Police
Hospital mortuary.
The elder sister of the deceased would
not allow members of the media to enter
the office where the deceased was found
hanging.
A picture captured on a mobile phone,
however, showed the deceased wearing a
white T-shirt and a red boxer’s shorts
and hanging from the ceiling with a rope
around his neck.
The Chairman of the Valuation Estate
Surveying Division of the GIS, Mr
Emmanuel Martey, who was at the scene
of the incident, told the media that
Yawson-Adjei was with the members of
the division who had gone to Dodowa
last Saturday for the marking of scripts of
new members who were being admitted
to the institution.
“We had conducted examination for our
trainees for admission to membership, so
we decided that we move outside Accra to
have time and concentrate to mark and
then do peer review.
“I was marking with him when he began
complaining about being blank and
being unable to appreciate what he was
marking. I asked him on a number of
occasions to go and rest,” he said.
According to Mr. Martey, Yawson-Adjei
took the rest and came back after two
hours but still complained of having
gone blank.
On Sunday evening, he took Yawson-
Adjei to the Valley View University
Hospital for treatment, and on arrival the
nurse observed him and said his blood
pressure was very high because he had
gone through so much stress.
“They gave us prescription and I took
him back to the hotel. But he was still
weak so we arranged for him to be taken
home.
“I called his home this morning
(yesterday) to find out his status, but I
was told that something had happened
and that he left home around 3 a.m.
Apparently, they did not know where he
was until they discovered him in his own
office,” he said.
Another source told the Daily Graphic
that his wife had called to inform
Yawson-Adjei’s elder sister that her
brother had left home at dawn and was
nowhere to be found.
“It was when the sister dashed here
around 6 a.m. that she discovered his
body hanging,” the source said.
A neighbour who pleaded anonymity said
he had seen the deceased arrive at the
office building situated behind the CUA
Building about 4 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 friend and neighbour of Yawson-Adjei,
Mr Dan Agyekum, who was distraught at
the turn of events, said he was yet to
understand the cause of his friend’s
death.
“Just last Thursday he signed my
daughter’s university forms,” he said,
and added: “I even saw him on Friday
and we chatted.”
Yawson-Adjei , he said, did not show any
sign of having a problem.
The Accra Regional Police Command
confirmed the incident.
Mr Emmanuel Larweh, a surveyor who
worked with Yawson-Adjei in the same
building, told the Daily Graphic that
Yawson-Adjei looked hale and hearty
when he saw him last Friday, 20
September, 2013.
“He even handed over my portion of the
scripts to be marked,” he said.