2 Kidnappers nabbed

Page 20: Daily Graphic, July 4, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
TWO members of a gang that kidnapped two men on Thursday have been arrested by the police.
The suspects, Edward Sena Kabutey, 28, who claims to be the Marketing Manager of Beta Solutions, and Osman Ibrahim, 21, unemployed, allegedly demanded GH¢7,000 from the parents of one of the victims.
Kabutey allegedly used his wife, Beatrice Akuffo, to lure Mr Dickson Anane, 22, at the InterContinental Bank at Osu, where Anane, who was then in the company of his friend, Mr Festus Botchway, 22, forced them into a private car and took them to Fadama at about 12 noon till 10p.m. when they were rescued.
Three others are said to be at large but Kabutey claims he did not kidnap them.
The victims were allegedly beaten, at an uncompleted building at Fadama, while their captors waiting for the ransom money.
The Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Rose Bio Atinga, told newsmen in Accra that at about 7p.m. on Thursday, four persons reported to the Police Headquarters Information Room that their relatives had been kidnapped.
According to her, the complainants indicated that the kidnappers were demanding GH¢7,000 or “their relative would be dead meat”.
She said a team of policemen were despatched to the Fadama Cluster of Schools park where the kidnappers had agreed to pick up the ransom.
DCOP Atinga said when the team got to the scene, Ibrahim was waiting for the money and was accordingly arrested.
She said Kabutey, who was suspected to be close by, drove away and was pursued by the team.
She said the team pursued Kabutey to the Kaneshie Police Station where he (suspect) claimed he was going to lodge a complaint of fraud against Anane.
Kabutey, however, said Anane defrauded him in South Africa for which Anane was being sought after by the police in South Africa.
As to why he did not report the matter to the police in Ghana, Kabutey said he decided to report the matter after apprehending Anane.
He claimed that he actually went to the Darkuman Police and the CID Headquarters on Thursday night to lodge complaints but he was driven away.
As to whether he went with the suspect to the various police stations, Kabutey said he left the victims in the care of his friends at Fadama.