The police in the Ashanti Region have confirmed that the two girls who faked their kidnapping are not students of St. Louis Senior High School (SHS).
Rather, the police said in an official release that they were students of St. Louis Junior High School (JHS) at Mmbrom in Manhyia South in Kumasi.
“The Ashanti Regional Police Command wishes to inform the general public to disregard a case of an alleged kidnapping of two St. Louis Junior High School students in the Ashanti Region, as the matter is different from what the actual case is about,” a police press release stated yesterday.
The police pointed out that two girls of the St. Louis JHS indeed faked the kidnapping, perhaps in order to have the opportunity to spend some days with their boyfriends at Tafo-Ahenbronum, a suburb of Greater Kumasi.
“On Saturday, February 6, 2021, at about 10:00pm, the Suame Police received a case of missing person from a complainant of Breman-Nkwantwima that on February 5, his daughter, age 15 years old, left the home to school and had since not returned.
“Investigations later indicated that the said missing person had called the brother to inform him that she was at Embassy Hotel, Suame Kotoko, but pretended it was a kidnapping,” the release authored by David A. Adjei, Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, said.
It said the Suame Police, acting upon intelligence, on February 8, 2021, found the so-called missing girl in the company of another St Louis JHS form three girl in good health.
“Investigations revealed that both girls on Friday, February 5, 2021, left home for school and had since not returned home, apparently they went to visit their boyfriends at Tafo-Ahenbronum and that they had been staying at that address with their friends since Friday, February 5, 2021,” it said.
The press release indicated that both girls were assisting the police to trace and arrest two boys, Clement and Nana Kwame, to also assist in the investigations.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi