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The two Canadian women who were rescued last Wednesday by security agencies in Kumasi after being kidnapped from the Royal Gulf Club in Kumasi on June 4, 2019, arrived safely in Canada.
The two women, 19-year-old Lauren Patricia Catherine Tilley, and 20-year-old Bailey Jordan Chitty, left Ghana last Wednesday on British Airways BA78 flight to Heathrow Airport. London, UK.
Daily sources at Kotoka International Airport indicate that the flight, operated with a Boeing 747-436, took off at 23:07, after a 30-minute delay, but almost landed at 6:10 am, at Heathrow. a private jet on standby arranged by the Canadian government to transport both to their home country.
Upon arrival in Canada, they were greeted by government officials and family members.
Both were students from the University of New Brunswick and were in Ghana as part of a corporate internship and were working with Youth Challenge International, a non-profit organization based in Toronto.
Tilley comes from Rothesay, New Brunswick, while Chitty comes from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The suspects
Meanwhile, the Ghana Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is collecting statements from the eight suspects arrested after the women were rescued and transferred from Kumasi to CID headquarters in Accra.
Sources at the CID told the Daily Graphic that the suspects would be brought to justice today for kidnapping.
The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, announced Wednesday at a press conference that five Ghanaians and three Nigerians were arrested after the search by the security agencies of a building located in the suburb of Kumasi, where women were detained.
According to the minister, Ghanaian security agencies collaborated in the rescue operation, but no "outside badets" were involved.
He added that shots had been fired in the premises where the women were held, without specifying who fired them, but added that one of the Nigerian suspects had been slightly injured during his arrest.
Security Agencies
National Security, the IDC, the National Investigation Bureau (BNI), the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT) and defense intelligence were the forces that joined forces to carry out this operation. .
Mr. Nkrumah stated that one of the suspects was arrested around 7 pm. last Tuesday, the suspect hosting the two women arrested later in the day.
"The whole operation lasted 25 minutes and in the end, all the suspects were arrested and are currently badisting the police in its investigations," he said.
The two Canadian women were not injured after their ordeal. They received emotional and psychological support from professionals before returning home.
Context
The two Canadian students were in the country and volunteered for an international charity when gunmen seized them in Kumasi on Thursday, June 6, 2019.
A 30-year-old Indian was abducted at gunpoint in Kumasi in April. His captors sent photos with a gun pointed at his family, demanding a ransom of $ 500,000.
Umpakan Chodri was later rescued in Parkoso, in the municipality of Asokore-Mampong, by a team of police officers.
Girls Sekondi / Takoradi
Three girls were abducted in Sekondi / Takoradi between 2017 and last year, but have not been found since. Ruth Love Quayeson, 18, graduated from Takoradi's Fijai Senior High School (SHS); Priscilla Blessing Bentum, a 21-year-old student of the University of Education, Winneba, and Priscilla Korankye, a 15-year-old student of the Sekondi SHS.
Samuel Udoetuk Wills, a 28-year-old Nigerian, was arrested in connection with abducted girls in Takoradi.
According to police, Udoetuk Wills revealed during his interrogation that a certain John Nweke, also Nigerian, was guarding the girls.
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