By Beatrice Oppon
An Accra Circuit Court has remanded three persons for allegedly kidnapping a 37-year-old mason at Ablekuma-Joma in Accra.
They are Kwabena Awere, a trader; Emmanuel Nyarko Boadi, a mason; and Nurudeen Adams, also a farmer.
Awere and Boadi both pleaded not guilty to two counts of robbery and kidnapping.
Adams faces one count of abetment and has also pleaded not guilty. Four other suspects are currently at large, and efforts are underway to apprehend them.
Presenting the facts, ASP Maxwell Oppong last July 27, 2021, the victim Roland Clottey sent his children to school at Joma CP with his unregistered motorbike.
He said on returning home the victim decided to service his exhaust pipe at a nearby mechanic shop. The prosecutor said while at the mechanic shop, the accused persons and the four at large also went there with two vehicles and two motorbikes.
ASP Oppong said Awere got down from his car and allegedly started beating the victim, and pointed him out to the rest that he tore a banner.
The other accomplices also joined Awere and subjected the victim to beatings. They later put him in Awere’s car and drove him together with his motorbike to Adams, who is alleged to be their boss at his ranch at Joma.
Adams allegedly ordered that the victim’s mobile phones be taken from him and further subjected him to severe beatings.
The accused persons allegedly punished the victim by allowing him carry a log on his shoulders for strenuous exercise while videoing him.
ASP Oppong further told the court that the accused persons and their accomplices tied the victim against an electric pole and demanded two thousand cedis before he is released.
He lodged a complaint with the Police together with video footage where Boadi was captured. The case has been adjourned to February 13.
