The Ejisu police within the Ashanti Area have nabbed two folks for kidnapping a 14-year-old boy and demanding a ransom of $3,000 from the family.
The Kidnappers identified as Charles Appiah (38) and Manasseh Fumey, a 29-year-old private security officer kidnapped the victim at the KNUST junction in Kumasi
Charles Appiah & Manasseh Fumey
The third suspect recognized as Felix posed as a resident overseas masterminded the plan and is at present on the run.
He befriended the sufferer who’s second 12 months Junior Excessive Scholar and promised to purchase him a laptop computer and a smartphone.
Felix later requested the sufferer to satisfy him at KNUST junction to obtain the gadgets he promised him.
{The teenager} was chloroformed upon arrival and was taken to an uncompleted two-storey constructing at Apatrapa.
After he was kidnapped, they demanded an quantity of $3,000 from the sufferer’s grandmother whom they lived in the identical neighbourhood.
The Public Relations Officer for the Ashanti Regional Police Command, ASP Godwin Ahianyo said that the sufferer shouted for assist from the place he was held, hostage.
This drew the eye of passers-by and knowledgeable the police which they acted swiftly and rescued the sufferer.