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General News of Monday, January 28, 2019
Source: dailyguideafrica.com
2019-01-28
A screening will be made today to confirm the nationality of the "kidnappers" of the missing girls
Fifteen people suspected of being behind the kidnapping of three young women from the western region were arrested and transferred to Accra.
The exercise that led to the arrest of the suspects follows a visit to the twin city of Sekondi / Takoradi by the director general of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah.
The visit seems to have provided a boost to ongoing investigations; previous efforts yielded no results.
DAILY GUIDE learned that the nationalities of the suspects were not yet known, but that a screening should take place today.
The suspects have reportedly been transferred to different police stations in Accra pending the opening of an investigation into their backgrounds today.
The IDC leader, accompanied by the Western Region Police Commander, DCDP Redeemer Vincent Dedjoe, and other senior police officers from the region, met separately with the families of the three abducted girls in their homes. various homes.
The engagement with the families of the victims and the arrest of 15 people should offer some relief to distressed parents by the fact that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, age 15; Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, and Ruth Love Quayson, 18
The head of the CID badured the parents concerned that the police administration was doing everything possible to help the victims.
She added that President Akufo-Addo had instructed the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, to give priority to investigation of cases of kidnapping.
The head of the CID revealed that the police administration had sought British and US badistance in the investigations.
The parents
The parents of the abducted victims expressed their gratitude to the police for the efforts made to try to save the victims.
However, they asked the law enforcement personnel to do more to bring back their children and appealed to a clinical psychologist to help them overcome the trauma they are undergoing.
Context
Between August and December of last year, three kidnappings were reported to the police in Takoradi.
The first victim, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, a third year student at the University of Education, Winneba, was living with her parents in Diabene, near Takoradi.
She was kidnapped on August 17, 2018 in Kansaworodo.
Her parents paid a ransom of 4,500 GH ¢ to the kidnappers, but their daughter was not released, so they filed a complaint with the police in Takoradi.
The second victim, Ruth Love Quayson, 18, had just finished Fijai High School in Sekondi and was living with her parents in Diabene, near Sekondi.
She was kidnapped on December 4, 2018 at the junction of Butumegyabu (BU) in Takoradi.
Her parents paid 1,300 GH ¢ to the kidnappers before they reported to the police.
The third victim, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, a first-year student at Sekondi College, lived with her parents in West Fijai, near Sekondi.
She was kidnapped on December 21, 2018, near the junction of Nkroful.
The parents also paid 1,000 GH ¢ to the kidnappers before they reported to the police.
Kidnappers game plan
According to the Western Region Police Command, the alleged abductors contacted the victims several times over the phone and were able to get to know them.
He added that the kidnappers had even promised to offer some jobs and mobile phones to the victims before kidnapping them.
A suspect arrested
On December 22, 2018, around 4 am, the accused Samuel Udoetuk Wills, a 28-year-old Nigerian, was arrested in connection with the kidnapping.
He was arrested in his hiding place in the suburb of Kansaworodo, near Takoradi, as a result of extensive investigations by the police.
According to the police, catalogs of calls between the accused and the victims were badyzed and the police established its link with the three cases.
The police claimed that the suspect had given the police several leads but that when the police followed them, they turned out to be false.
The commander of the regional police revealed that on December 24, 2018, the accused had been brought before the district court of Takoradi district and placed in custody to facilitate the investigation.
Evasion of the suspect
DCOP Dedjoe reported that on December 30, 2018, at approximately 6:25 pm, while the defendant was in police cells, he had managed to escape through one of the ventilation windows. cells.
"He used a hacksaw blade to cut the 5/8 iron rods used to secure the ventilation windows and escaped," he added.
He continued: "On January 3, 2019, the police took the accused back to Kansaworodo in an unfinished building.
A search carried out near the building where it was recovered revealed the clothing, headgear and rubber slippers of the third victim, Priscilla Koranchie. "
Tarkwa Incident
Moreover, it is feared that a freshman from Tarkwa High School (TARSCO) in the West region was also abducted by strangers.
Augustina Ndaago, originally from the Upper West region, was reportedly seen at school last Wednesday.
DAILY GUIDE learned that on Wednesday around 9:00 am, the student completed a form and indicated that she would visit her parents who lived in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the area.
However, Friday, we could not locate Augustina Ndaago.
Last Friday, the director of the school, Paulina Manu, confirmed the story in a statement that she signed.
An arrest
Kasim Suleman, a 26-year-old man, was arrested again in Elubo, a border town in the region, for kidnapping a 17-year-old girl in the area.
DSP Olivia Adiku, public relations officer of the regional police, told DAILY GUIDE that the suspect had been arrested for further investigation.
Around 7 am on Saturday, a pastor John Ackon of the Light House World Department in Elubo arrested the suspect and took him to the police station with the help of four people.
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