Hundreds of women from different groups across the country will soon petition the diplomatic community in Ghana over cases of kidnappings in the country. The women led by the National Women’s Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Hanna Louisa Bisiw, are worried about how the security agencies, particularly the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Ghana Police …
Officials of Ghana Tourism Authority(GTA) backed by armed police officers have stormed and closed down a hotel in Kumasi where the two kidnapped Canadian volunteers lodged before their abduction. According to the GTA officials, the hotel which has no name situated at Ahodwo near the Golf Park operated without a license and lacked standard security system including CCTV cameras a …
Ghana’s hopes of finding and reuniting the kidnapped girls with their families may be an exercise in futility, the founder and leader of True Word Fire Prophetic Ministries, Prophet Nigel Gaisie. This is because Prophet Gaisie said his personal prayers have so far not revealed that there is any chance of finding the girls. My prayers don’t show that anything …
Management of the Ghana National Gas Company Limited has expressed their empathy and support for the families of the three kidnapped Takoradi girls. The company led by the Corporate Communications Manager, Ernest Owusu Bempah paid a warm visit to the homes of the Koranchie, Bentum and Quayson families [of Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, and Ruth Love Quayson, respectively] …
Award-winning Ghanaian Gospel Artiste, Cwesi Oteng, has revealed that his three children were kidnapped recently at their school. According to the Gospel musician, the police advised him not disclose the disappearance of his children to the media and the general public. Speaking on Happy FM’s ‘Showbiz Xtra’ with Doctar Cann over the weekend, Cwesi Oteng said: “My children were kidnapped …
An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda’s most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and Ugandan driver Jean Paul were on a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park when four gunmen ambushed their vehicle on Tuesday evening, a police statement said. Various illegal …
The Ugandan authorities say an American tourist and a Ugandan driver have been kidnapped by gunmen in one of the country’s most popular national parks. The government says four armed men staged an ambush on Tuesday in Queen Elizabeth National Park, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo where many rebel groups are active. It says four …
Two teachers have been killed in Burkina Faso after being kidnapped, the Ministry of Education has confirmed. They were kidnapped on 11 March and buried on Tuesday. The goal of the kidnappers was to scare the teachers into abandoning their posts in the region, according to a government source. Both teachers were working in the town of Djibo, where …
The families of the three kidnapped girls have threatened to embark on a demonstration at the Western Regional Police Command if the police fail to provide concrete results on the investigation of the girls by February 22, 2019. Addressing a press conference at Diabene attended by the families, Queen-mother’s, taxi drivers and residents, Micheal Hayford Grant called on the Police …
Alexander Kojo Koranchie, father of Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, one of the three kidnapped girls in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, has revealed that the prime suspect in the kidnapping cases once called him and threatened to kill his daughter. This was immediately after the 28-year-old Nigerian suspected kidnapper, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, had kidnapped her daughter on December 21, 2018, at a …
