Emmanuel Gyamfi Marfo
A SEVENTEEN-YEAR old girl of Serwaa Kesse Senior High School at Duayaw Nkwanta in the Brong-Ahafo Region, Patricia Peprah, was allegedly kidnapped last Sunday by unknown men on board an Urvan mini bus when she boarded the vehicle in Sunyani, the regional capital, on her way back to school, having come home on exeat.
The student, who was later reportedly dumped at the Sacred Heart Catholic School unconscious in Sunyani after two days of her disappearance, was found by a nursing sister who rushed her to the Sunyani Regional Hospital where she was treated and discharged.
Patricia has therefore been given two weeks’ sick leave to recuperate and is currently living with her father at Yamfo in the Tano North District of the region.
Narrating her ordeal to DAILY GUIDE, the father, Emmanuel Gyamfi Marfo, said her daughter, whose arm has been amputated, came home last week Friday on exeat and on Sunday she was given GH¢140 to go back to school.
He said Patricia joined a taxi at Yamfo to Sunyani where she boarded a Duayaw Nkwanta-bound Urvan mini bus. According to Mr. Gyamfi, his daughter told him after gaining consciousness, that there were six men on board the vehicle but after it had set off, she felt unconscious and did not know where she was.
Patricia told her father she later found herself in a room covered with glass. The father said he believed his daughter was chloroformed when she joined the vehicle.
Mr Gyamfi Marfo said checks at the school on Monday, 5 June, revealed that Patricia had not arrived there, adding that the school authorities, together with the parents, reported the case to the Yamfo police who did not treat the case with seriousness.
According to the father, whilst in that room, Patricia sent an SMS message to a relative in Kumasi that she had found herself in a strange room decorated with only glass at a place she could not identify. More so, she could not talk and so her father should be informed otherwise she would be killed. The message was sent to the father and a good Samaritan gave him the telephone number of a powerful man of God in the Ashanti Region whom he (Gyamfi) called to narrate his problem to.
The man of God, whose name was not disclosed, told the father on phone that his daughter was really locked up in a room somewhere but he (pastor) could send angels to go and open the door after he (pastor) had prayed with him (Gyamfi) on the phone.
According to Mr Gyamfi, the pastor asked him to sprinkle ordinary water and holy water water on Patricia’s picture, which he did while on the phone.
At dawn Tuesday, Patricia was found at the school opposite the Sunyani Nursing Training School.
FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Duayaw Nkwanta