{"id":669457,"date":"2019-08-01T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>John Oji <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details are emerging about how the\nmissing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel\nUdoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspec"},"modified":"2019-08-01T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:01:08","slug":"suspect-admits-kidnapping-tdi-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/01\/suspect-admits-kidnapping-tdi-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect \u2018Admits\u2019 Kidnapping T\u2019di Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>John Oji <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Details are emerging about how the<br \/>\nmissing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel<br \/>\nUdoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspected to have kidnapped the three<br \/>\ngirls, admitted that he conspired with John Oji, 29, to escape with the girls<br \/>\nwho are yet to be found.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Chief State<br \/>\nAttorney, Patience Klinogo, Udoetuk Wills admitted in the presence of an<br \/>\nindependent witness that he conspired with Oji to kidnap the victims \u2013 Priscilla<br \/>\nBlessing Bentum, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla Mantebea Korankye.<\/p>\n<p>Udoetuk and Oji were in court<br \/>\nyesterday for the continuation of their trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giving the amended facts of the<br \/>\ncase in court yesterday, the Chief State Attorney said contrary to the denials<br \/>\nby Udoetuk in his previous statements on the allegations against him, he, on<br \/>\nJune 7, 2019, in the presence of an independent witness, admitted being part of<br \/>\nkidnapping the victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She told the packed court that<br \/>\nafter kidnapping the victims, Udoetuk went to his fianc\u00e9e called Emily Alimo at<br \/>\nAtekyem, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region and spent three weeks there<br \/>\nbefore returning to Takoradi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She indicated that when Emily Alimo<br \/>\nwas contacted in August 2018, she initially denied knowing Udoetuk until later<br \/>\nin December 2018 when she admitted she knew Udoetuk Wills and that he was her<br \/>\nboyfriend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chief State<br \/>\nAttorney, the girlfriend subsequently gave the particulars of the Facebook<br \/>\naccount of Samuel Wills.\u00a0She mentioned that on December 21, 2018,<br \/>\nPrinscilla Korankye was also kidnapped at Nkroful<br \/>\njunction near Takoradi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suspects Plead Not Guilty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When their plea was taken<br \/>\nyesterday, the two suspects pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blood Sacrifice<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chief State Attorney indicated<br \/>\nthat Facebook chats of the two accused persons from the mobile phone of Udoetuk<br \/>\nWills revealed coded language on kidnapping and blood sacrifice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also revealed discussions on drugs which could be administered to victims to stupor.<\/p>\n<p>After giving the facts of the case,<br \/>\nthe judge, Justice Hannah Taylor, asked the prosecutors to serve the accused<br \/>\npersons with the amended charge sheet and present all exhibits to court at the<br \/>\nnext adjourned date.<\/p>\n<p>The accused persons were, therefore,<br \/>\nremanded in prison custody pending trial and the case adjourned to October 16,<br \/>\n2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parents Go Wild <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hell broke loose at the forecourt<br \/>\nof the court when some\u00a0of the parents of the kidnapped girls attempted to<br \/>\npounce on the suspects after the case was adjourned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The visibly angry parents who sat<br \/>\nquietly in the courtroom suddenly flared up after the judge announced the next<br \/>\nadjourned date. They attempted to attack Udoetuk when they were being escorted<br \/>\ninto a waiting van.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Udoetuk-Wills has already<br \/>\nbeen sentenced to 18 months\u2019 imprisonment to run concurrently for escaping from<br \/>\nlawful custody.<\/p>\n<p>John Oji was arrested in neighbouring Togo through a special operation by the Ghanaian Police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Sekondi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oji Details are emerging about how the missing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors. The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel Udoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspected to have kidnapped the three girls, admitted that he conspired with John Oji, 29, to escape with the girls who are yet to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suspect \u2018Admits\u2019 Kidnapping T\u2019di Girls - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/01\/suspect-admits-kidnapping-tdi-girls\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Suspect \u2018Admits\u2019 Kidnapping T\u2019di Girls - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"John Oji Details are emerging about how the missing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors. 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