The Ghanaian President, Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has broken his silence on the emergence of kidnapping cases in Ghana, assuring that tough decisions were being taken by his government to deal with the alien cultural practices that has bedeviled the country.
According to President Nana Addo, unlike Nigeria, Ghana had not known such unfortunate phenomenon of kidnapping.
“We need to do something about it so that it does not become a feature of our society and that the government was determined to resolutely contain the issue,” the state-owned Daily Graphic quoted the President Akufo Addo as saying on Monday.
President Akufo Addo gave the assurance when Ghana’s Anti-Corruption Coalition paid a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House, the seat of government in Accra.
The President’s comment comes days after parents of the three kidnapped girls in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis mounted pressure on the government to release their children to them, following the announcement by the CID boss that they knew the whereabouts of the kidnapped girls.
The three girls, Priscilla Mantebea Kuranchie , Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Ruth Love Quayson were kidnapped last August with Samuel Udoetuk Wills, a Nigerian, who is the main suspect, playing dilly dally with the police by leading them to wrong locations.
Meanwhile, the police on Sunday freed an Indian businessman, who was kidnapped by some Nigerians in Accra.
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