Police prosecute the alleged kidnapping of another chief

West Region police are participating in a manhunt for the Chief of Upper Dixcove who allegedly kidnapped the Chief of Lower Dixcove and four of his subjects.

Local police chief of public relations, DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, confirmed to investigators that the police had information that Upper Dixcove's supreme leader, Nana Hema Dekyi, had announced that he had been told by the police to be in charge of the investigation. he would meet in his palace.

He brought to the outside of the city well-built men armed with machetes who attacked Nana Kwasi Agyemang IX and subjects from the Lower Dixcove Palace.

They proceeded to the destruction of properties, kidnapped the Nana Kwasi Agyemang IX and four of his men in a secret place.

The police in Agona Nkwanta with Sekondi's reinforcement went to Dixcove and rescued Nana Kwasi Agyemang IX and the four abducted subjects from Nana Hema Dekyi XIV's palace.

The kidnapped subjects were half-naked and cut by a cutlbad.

Adiku, a police officer, said the five men were locked in a room on the second floor of Nana Hema Dekyi's palace.

The police broke into the room and saved them. The rescued leader and his four subjects were sent to Efia Nkwanta Hospital where they are currently being treated.

We do not know where the suspect Nana Hema Dekyi is.

Two vehicles, a Ford No. GT7299-X belonging to Nana Kwasi Agyemang IX and the Daewoo GS 4207-10 sedan, were damaged.