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General News on Friday, June 14, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-06-14
File photo: A pomegranate was found in the apartment where Canadian women were held
It appeared that an explosive weapon had been found in the arsenal of the kidnappers of the two Canadian women rescued on Wednesday.
The pro-government newspaper Daily Guide announced Friday, June 14 that in addition to the grenade, the kidnappers had an badortment of firearms "that were kept for defensive and offensive purposes."
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has already said at a press conference on the rescue of Lauren Patricia Catherine Tilley, 19, and Bailey Jordan Chitly, 20, that members of the rescue mission were facing a significant firepower of the kidnappers.
"CID policemen from the Ashanti Regional Police in Kumasi were shocked to find the grenade in the house where the two women were held," says the Daily Guide newspaper.
Context
Young Canadian women were reportedly forced to board a vehicle at approximately 20:20 on June 4, 2019.
They had just come out of their apartment at Silver Spring in Kumasi.
One person, a Uber driver, was arrested for kidnapping.
Subsequently, a team of experts from Canada and the United Kingdom arrived in Ghana to badist National Security Officers in conducting their investigations.
At the same time, details emerged showing that the Nigerian brain is behind the kidnapping of two Canadian girls who volunteered in Ghana.
The identity of the four Nigerians has not yet been confirmed.
The police are also hunting three Nigerians linked to the kidnapping of the consular general and head of the Estonian mission in Ghana, Nabil Makram Basbous, in April 2019 in Accra, which was later rescued by the police.
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