{"id":692971,"date":"2019-08-27T12:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>A\nPRISONER serving his sentence at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison reportedly\npranked the security agencies in the heat of the kidnapping incident in June\ninvolving two Canadian girls in Kumasi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ninmate who made the call to "},"modified":"2019-08-27T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:31:14","slug":"inmate-misleads-police-from-nsawam-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/27\/inmate-misleads-police-from-nsawam-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate Misleads Police From Nsawam Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A<br \/>\nPRISONER serving his sentence at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison reportedly<br \/>\npranked the security agencies in the heat of the kidnapping incident in June<br \/>\ninvolving two Canadian girls in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ninmate who made the call to a police hotline from Nsawam Prisons had told the<br \/>\npolice that he knew the whereabouts of the two Canadian girls.<\/p>\n<p>ASP<br \/>\nGodwin Ahianyo of the Ashanti Regional Police Public Affairs Unit, who made the<br \/>\ndisclosure, said: \u201cThis prisoner told us that the girls were being kept at a<br \/>\nlocation at Oda and we believed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially,<br \/>\nthe police were not aware that they were communicating with a prisoner who was<br \/>\njust making mockery of them, so they took his information seriously but later<br \/>\nit turned out to be false.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoner whose name was not<br \/>\ngiven was said to have used a mobile phone to call the police hotlines on<br \/>\nseveral occasions, claiming that he was aware of the whereabouts of the<br \/>\nkidnapped girls.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police PRO, later<br \/>\non, the supposed informant refused to pick his calls when the police tried to<br \/>\nreach him for additional information about the girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe then contacted the telcos to<br \/>\nidentify the location of the one using that mobile number and it emerged that<br \/>\nthe individual was calling from the Nsawam Prisons,\u201d he said on Kumasi-based <em>Nhyira FM<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>ASP Ahianyo cautioned the public<br \/>\nthat security hotlines are for serious business and people should not call in to<br \/>\ngive wrong information, saying when people\u2019s lives are in danger,<br \/>\nthere should be no pranks.<\/p>\n<p>The two Canadian girls were<br \/>\nalighting from an Uber car in front of their hostel at Danyame in Kumasi when<br \/>\nsome unknown people kidnapped two of them at gunpoint and sped off with their<br \/>\ncar.<\/p>\n<p>A joint effort by the police, national security and other security agencies helped to rescue the two girls at a location near Antoa. The eight people suspected to be connected to the kidnapping are currently on trial at an Accra High Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PRISONER serving his sentence at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison reportedly pranked the security agencies in the heat of the kidnapping incident in June involving two Canadian girls in Kumasi. 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