Two Nigerians charged for attempted kidnapping

Farmer gets seven years for defilement

Accra (Greater Accra) 21 Oct. '99

Two Nigerians who attempted to kidnap a Ghanaian woman were on Wednesday remanded in prison custody when they appeared before an Accra circuit tribunal.

Anthony Clark and Patrick Alazigha, both traders, pleaded not guilty to four counts of illegal entry into Ghana and attempted kidnapping.

The tribunal heard that sometime in August, this year, Clark telephoned Miss Bernice Agyeiwaa, a hairdresser, and told her that he had returned from Germany and that her husband, who is residing there, had given a message for her.

The prosecution said Clark who arranged to meet Bernice at the headquarters of Ghana Telecom at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, then told her that her husband had sent him to bring her to Germany.

Clark, accompanied by Alazigha, asked Bernice to take two passport-size photographs so that he could use them to procure a passport for her.

The complainant became suspicious so she reported the matter to the Police who arrested the accused persons.

They will make their second appearance on 1 November.

At the same tribunal, Francis Ackom-Mensah, a surveyor, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding Mr Basil Ahiable, a public servant, of 27 million cedis under the pretext of selling four plots of land belonging to the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School at Legon, to him.

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