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General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019
Source: dailyguideafrica.com
2019-01-24
Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla Benediction Bentum
The West Regional Police Command revealed that the parents of the three girls abducted in the metropolis of Sekondi-Takoradi had so far paid a ransom of 6,800 GH ¢, but that the kidnappers refused to release the children.
According to the police, all affected parents made payments to the abductors before reporting their respective cases to the police.
Interpol joins investigations
The regional police command badured that he was collaborating with the international police (Interpol) to demolish the union's heinous crime.
It emerged yesterday that Samuel Odoetuk Wills, the Nigerian arrested for his abduction in the metropolis of Takoradi, had already been arrested in his home country for the same crime.
The regional police commander, DCOP Redeemer, Vincent Dedjoe, informed the media that between the months of August and December of last year, three cases of kidnappings had been reported to the police.
Game plan
He revealed that the alleged abductors contacted the victims several times over the phone and were able to get to know the victims.
He added that the kidnappers even promised to offer jobs to some victims before kidnapping them.
1st victim pays $ 4,500 GH
The regional commander said that the first victim, Winisca, a third-year student at the University of Education, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, was living with her parents in Diabene, near Takoradi.
He stated that she was kidnapped on August 17, 2018 in Kansaworodo. His parents paid a ransom of 4,500 GH ¢ to the kidnappers, but their daughter was not released until a complaint was filed 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.
According to the commander of the regional police, his parents had already paid a ransom of 1 300 GH ¢ to the kidnappers before they also report to the police.
DCOP Dedjoe said Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, a first-year student at Sekondi College, was living with her parents in West Fijai, near Sekondi. She was kidnapped on December 21, 2018, near the junction of Nkroful.
"The parents also paid a ransom of 1,000 GH ¢ to the kidnappers before they reported to the police," said the regional police commander.
A suspect arrested
DCOP Dedjoe added that on December 22, 2018, around 4 am, the accused, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, a 28-year-old Nigerian, was arrested in his hiding place on the outskirts of Kansaworodo as a result of the arrest. thorough investigations by the police.
"Call catalogs between the accused and the victims were badyzed and the police established links between the accused and the three abduction cases. He gave the police several leads, but when the police followed up, they turned out to be wrong, "he said.
The regional police commander added that on December 24, 2018, the accused had been brought before the Takoradi District Court and placed in custody by the police for the purpose of continuing the investigation. On January 9, 2019, he was invited back to court.
Suspect escape from the cell
DCOP Dedjoe told the media that on December 30, 2018, around 6:25 pm, while the accused was in police cells, he had managed to escape through one of the windows cell ventilation.
"He used a hacksaw blade to cut the 5/8 iron rods used to secure the ventilation windows and escaped from them," he added.
He continued: "On January 3, 2019, the police took the accused back to Kansaworodo in an unfinished building. A search carried out around the building where it was taken revealed the dress, the headgear and the rubber shoes of the third victim, Priscilla Koranchie.
He said the clues they followed up to now give the police no doubt that the suspect is linked to the crime.
He called on the public to help police unravel the case.
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