Takoradi kidnapping suspects used coded language in discussions on Facebook – Attorney

General News on Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-31

According to Patience Klinogo, the attorney general in the Takoradi kidnapping case, the two Nigerian suspects, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, used coded language in their conversations on Facebook.

On Wednesday, during the court proceedings, she revealed that the suspects used a language related to kidnapping and blood sacrifice.

The two suspects were charged with six counts of "conspiracy to commit a crime of kidnapping and abduction".

The Attorney General told the court that the revelation of their interaction was noted on the mobile phone of the second defendant, John Oji, after his arrest by the police on 4 June 2019 in Aflao, near the border between Ghana and Nigeria. Togo.

"The Facebook discussions of her mobile phone between A1 and A2 revealed coded language on kidnapping and blood sacrifice, as well as discussions about drugs that can be given to the victims of stupor," she said.

Continuing her statement in the Sekondi High Court, she also disclosed various mobile phone numbers that were attributed to both defendants after using it to receive money from relatives of the victim, said the Attorney General.

"On June 6, 2019, John Oji, in his statement of caution regarding the investigation, stated that he had come from Nigeria to Takoradi during the first week of December 2018 to see Sam Udoetuk Wills, the first accused, on the invitation of him. Oji admitted that he knew the two cell phone numbers used to receive parents' ransom by Wills. That he had the habit of communicating and WhatsApp Wills on the same. "

However, the two accused pleaded not guilty to the six charges laid by Attorney General Patience Klinogo in the amended indictment.

The presiding Judge, Hanna Taylor, however, remanded the case on October 16 to allow the Public Prosecutor to serve the accused with the indictment and the facts, as well as to present all the facts of the case. another witness or exhibit at the next session.

One of the aggrieved parents, who was not amused by the proceedings and was slow to see his kidnapped daughter reunited with her, attacked one of the defendants just outside of the audience room.

It took police intervention to save the accused from heckling.