The Police in the Western Region have found a first-year student of the Tarkwa Senior High School who went missing on Thursday.
A statement from the school said, “on Thursday 24th January, 2019, around 12:30 noon, Augustina’s brother called the housemistress to inform her that a “supposed” kidnapper had sent him a text message that Augustina together with two others had been kidnapped and were in their custody.”
The Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Maame Tiwaah Addo-Danquah, after a working visit to the Western Region, told Citi News, the police are interrogating the suspect to understand the circumstances under which kept the girl was kept for several nights.
“It is something that we have arrested the suspect. Apparently, the lady met the guy, the guy proposed to the lady and she followed him to his house. They slept. The guy is in police custody and we have begun investigation. That lady is around, we are talking to her and we are interrogating the suspect to understand the circumstances under which the whole issue happened,” she said.
Three earlier reported kidnapping incidents in the Western Region have triggered a social media campaign by Ghanaians urging the police to be more aggressive in finding the missing girls.
Another report was made in the Volta Region this week involving a 17-year-old girl.
An aunt of the 17-year old student Sonrise Christian High School, Ms. Beatrice Dzorvakpor, reported to the Ho Police that her niece went on Monday January 21, and presented evidence of a Whatsapp conversation between her and someone else using her niece’s phone who did not demand a ransom.
The victim was later found after the kidnapper dropped her off at Aflao, from where she could locate a friend.
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Citifmonline
