A kidnapping suspect arrested for Canadian girls wears a Canadian t-shirt

General News on Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Source: adomonline.com

2019-06-12

Seidu Yakubu Mba, one of the main suspects in the kidnapping of the two Canadian nationals, may have been obsessed with "Canada" when he was surprised when he was wearing a Canadian brand t-shirt. moment of his arrest.

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Lauren Patricia Catherine Tilley, 19, and Bailey Jordan Chitty, 20, were abducted on June 4, 2019 in Kumasi as they returned home from a youth development program organized by Youth Challenge International.

In the Asokwa Four-Junction neighborhood, Lauren, Bailey and a third person told their colleagues that they were going to their hostel located in Nhyiaeso, around the Royal Gulf Club.

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, at a press conference on Wednesday, said intelligence gathering efforts have allowed security agencies to focus on the suspects badociated with the investigation. ;incident.

The suspects, he said, however did not go without a fight they used their bullets, which resulted in a series of gunfire between the suspects and the security team.

A suspect was slightly injured by the shooting.

"At 7 pm, a first arrest was made. At 9:15 pm, one of the accomplices directly involved in this incident was also arrested by the joint team that runs this operation. A Ghanaian local contact, who provided food to the kidnappers, was apprehended at around 8:45 pm, which led to the arrest of the other accomplices.

"The place of detention of the victims was subsequently surrounded shortly before 5 am and at 5:15 am a joint team had entered the scene in the hope of saving the girls. Shots were fired from the scene and the operation took about 25 minutes. By the end of the operation, the two Nigerians who were holding the women had been brought under control and the third Nigerian, presumed to be the leader of the gang, was later arrested in a separate place, "he said.

Eight suspects have already been arrested in connection with the crime; five Ghanaians and three Nigerians.