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General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-01-24
The victim was released by kidnappers after paying a ransom of 500 GHC.
A high school girl who was kidnapped Monday in Kasoa, Central Region, reunited with her family after her ordeal that sowed fear and panic in the region.
The Kasoa case follows a series of unsolved abductions in Takoradi, in the western region of the country, where three girls have still not been located.
The victim of Kasoa, a student at Postin High School, was released by her captors after the family paid a ransom on GHS500, the only money she could afford to pay instead of the 4,000 GHS she requested.
Recounting the incident to Joshua Kojo Mensah, of Clbad News, the victim indicated that she had left home Monday around 5 am to go to school and that she had met a taxi driver who had offered to transport him at a reduced price.
According to the victim, a few minutes after the start of the trip, she fainted only to become aware in an unfinished building in the forest where she saw three other girls in captivity.
She added that the kidnappers initially claimed a ransom of 10,000 GHS, but brought the price down to 4,000 GHS when they realized that she was not feeling well and feared that she would not be able to do so. she does not die.
She was released the next day after her parents had paid 500 GHS to the kidnappers. It was filed in Madina, Accra, where it proposed the GHS20 as a means of transport.
She said that she had not been badually abused.
Meanwhile, police in the Ho area, Volta, said that she was also investigating a case of alleged abduction involving a 17-year-old girl.
The victim was reported missing on Monday while she was going to pay her tuition to the bank.
She was however found the next morning in the company of a friend in Aflao and brought home by the police.
Police investigate the authenticity of the victim's complaint.
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