Two Nigerians arrested in Ghana for kidnapping, human trafficking
The Central Regional
Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHT) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has
arrested two Nigerians at Gomoa Pomadze on suspicion of kidnapping and human
trafficking.
According to police,
the suspects, Paul Okafor and Duru Favour, are said to be engaged in kidnapping
and trafficking of young Nigerians to perpetrate cyber-crime activities in the
country.
Briefing the Ghana
News Agency (GNA), DSP Irene Oppong, Regional Police Public Relations Officer
and Head of the AHTU, said 39 victims, all Nigerians in their twenties, were
rescued in the process.
She said on Sunday,
July 12, at about 1100 hours, the Winneba District Police Command, acting on
information, dispatched a Police Patrol team to Gomoa Pomadze, where they met a
21-year old Nigerian, Charles Ikorohk in the company of three Ghanaians.
She said Ikorohk
told the Police team that he arrived in the country from Nigeria on Wednesday,
January 22, to visit a friend but could not trace him.
He said he got
stranded in Accra where he met one Uzo at the Kwame Nkrumah interchange area,
who later introduced him to one Arisuezo, also a Nigerian.
She said Arisuezo
brought Ikorohk to Winneba and kept him in a walled house together with other
young men from Nigerian.
According to DSP
Oppong, Arisuezo prevented his captives from leaving the compound and subjected
them to all forms of inhuman treatment and also engaged them in cyber-crime
activities.
She said Charles
managed to escape on Sunday, July 12 about 0800 hours when he was tasked to
weed the compound of the house while their supervisors went out with one of the
victims to a Mobile money vendor to withdraw some cash fraudulently received.
She said the police,
after receiving a tip-off, quickly went to the house and rescued the 39
Nigerians and arrested the suspects.
Thirty-six laptops
were also retrieved from the house. DSP Oppong said the owner of the house was
arrested and given a police enquiry bail while investigations were ongoing to
arrest Michael Arisuezo and his other accomplices.
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