The suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills
A Nigerian suspected kidnapper who was arrested and remanded in police custody by a court in Takoradi has allegedly escaped police cells.
The suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, 28, was arrested by the police in the Western Region to assist in investigations into the mysterious kidnapping of young ladies in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis.
DAILY GUIDE gathered that Samuel Udoetuk Wills was arrested by the Bureau of National Investigations in an uncompleted building at Kansaworado in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis.
He was later handed over to the police in Takoradi. He was sent to court and was remanded to assist in investigations but managed to escape from the police cells.
The suspect, who was to reappear before the court on January 9, 2019, escaped from the police cells on December 30, 2018, at about 4:50pm.
According to a police source, the suspect managed to escape after using an implement to cut the iron rods made to secure ventilation in the cells.
Confirming the story to DAILY GUIDE, DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer, noted that the police had declared the suspect wanted.
She pointed out that investigations into the case were underway to establish the circumstances that led to the escape of the suspect.
The suspect, who is believed to be behind most of the kidnap cases reported in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis in the month of August last year, was said to have been cooperating with the police to locate one of the ladies kidnapped.
It would be recalled that in August last year, residents of the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis were terrified following the alleged kidnapping of two young girls within three days in the area.
The first incident happened on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, when a 16-year-old senior high school student was kidnapped about 100 metres from her house at New Site near Takoradi.
The young girl was abandoned the next day dawn close to her house. Unfortunately, the 16-year-old girl was dumb when she was found. Perhaps, she was traumatized by the ordeal as she could only communicate through writing and texting on her phone.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that the girl later drew a snake with two heads, with the inscriptions “two headed snake, rituals, waist beads, mute and juju” repeatedly on a paper.
A day after the first girl was discovered, a 21-year-old lady at Nkroful junction in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis was also kidnapped.
According to the father, his daughter called him that fateful day, August 17, sounding very agitated and screaming “dad” repeatedly, after which the line dropped and the phone was put off.
He mentioned that they did not hear from their daughter again until the next day when a man speaking Pidgin English interspersed with poor Fanti used the daughter’s phone to call him.
He indicated that the alleged kidnapper demanded a ransom of GH¢4,000 via Tigo Mobile Money line before they released the daughter.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi