KIDNAPPED! Ruth Abakah
The identity of the fourth girl in the case involving the Takoradi missing girls in the Western Region is unravelling.
Ruth
Abakah was 19 years of age when she went missing at Diabene, a suburb of
Takoradi, about a year ago without any trace.
The
kidnappers got in touch later and the family paid GH¢300 ransom money but the
miscreants never released the poor girl.
Ruth
completed Diabene Senior High School where she read General Arts in 2018.
She
was also a Sunday school teacher at Diabene Methodist Church and was last seen
on Sunday, July 29, 2018.
The
family members of the girl are now claiming that the fourth set of human
remains discovered at Nkroful New Site in Takoradi by the police last week could
be that of their missing girl and want DNA tests for confirmation.
Three Girls
The
fourth remains were discovered as part of police investigations into the three Takoradi
kidnapping cases that have rocked the country in the past months.
Already,
the whereabouts of the three girls are unknown as the two Nigerian suspects –
Samuel Udoetuk Wills, 28, and John Oji, 29 – have given the security agencies a
tough time in disclosing where they are keeping the girls.
4th Remains
The
fourth human remains were located in a well in an uncompleted building where
the main suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, was re-arrested after escaping from
police custody in December 2018.
A
certain Evangelist Veronica Cobbinah, who claimed to be the grandmother of Ruth
Abakah, has narrated how the young lady went missing, claiming that it happened
on 29thJuly 2018 when Ruth Abakah went to Diabene Methodist Church and
never returned home.
She
claimed that when she got back from church her grandchild was not at home and
was only told by her friends that she received a phone call and left the Sunday
school service.
She
claimed that the police in the area assisted the family in the payment of the ransom
to the kidnappers but the girl never came back.
Evangelist
Cobbinah added that various announcements to trace the girl were unsuccessful
and reported the case to the Kojokrom police and the Sekondi police but to no
avail.
Elder Sister
An
elder sister of the missing girl, Matilda, also corroborated the story and said
the family made some payments to the suspected kidnappers who talked to her to
get her sister released but to no avail.
“The
one who spoke to me said they had used my sister’s name to register for MTN
Mobile money so we should make the payment through that number which we did.
“At
the time, I was working with MTN so I gave the number to my boss and we
realised that they used my sister’s National Health Insurance card for the
registration. So that was how we were convinced that she was in their custody.
We have so far paid GH¢300 to them,” she recounted.
“We
want the police to be quick about their DNA tests so that we can be comfortable
with our lives. Right now, we are downhearted,” she added.
3rd Suspect
There
is a third suspect who is said to have been picked up by the police in Nigeria
in connection with the case and already, there are frantic efforts by the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to get him extradited to face justice
in Ghana.
The
CID is said to have deployed three of its leading investigators to Nigeria to
see to the extradition process of Chika John Nnodim who was grabbed on 5th
August 2019
The
investigators, who are said to be personnel from the Anti-Armed Robbery Unit,
according to a police source, are to follow the legal processes to expedite the
extradition process.
Suspect
Chika John, according to the police source, is also under investigation for
another offence he had committed in his country.
The
suspect, according to the CID, was arrested by a joint team of police personnel
from Ghana and Nigeria.
Existing Victims
The
first victim, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, a third year student of the
University of Education, Winneba, was kidnapped on August 17, 2018 at
Kansaworodo.
Second
victim, Ruth Love Quayson, 18, who had just completed Fijai Senior High School
in Sekondi was kidnapped on December 4, 2018 at Butumegyabu (BU) junction in
Takoradi.
The third victim, Priscilla Mantebea Kuranchie, aged 15, a first-year student of Sekondi College, was kidnapped on December 21, 2018 at a spot near Nkroful junction.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi
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