From Emmanuel Modey, Nkwanta
A father’s plan to purchase a vehicle by selling his eight-year-old daughter at the Nkwanta market in the Nkwanta South District of the Volta Region, backfired when he was arrested by the police.
According to ASP Douglas Kuma, the Nkwanta South District Police Commander, the father, Kegbameni Blesa, 28, a driver resident at Basare in the Republic of Togo, asked his daughter to accompany him to Koe in the Nkwanta North District to do some business with a friend.
The District Commander said on his arrival at Koe, the friend Badaheo Kejabie, 29, a farmer, during their conversation convinced Kegbameni to go and sell his daughter the next day, which was a market day at Nkwanta.
The following morning ASP Kuma said Badaheo and Kegbameni set off with the girl to the market but an informant who heard of their plan, ulterior motive, hinted the police and feigned interest to buy the child.
At the crucial moment when the child was being offered at GH¢48,000, the police led by ASP Douglas Kuma, emerged at the scene and effected their arrest.
The two suspects were arraigned before the Nkwanta Magistrate’s Court presided over by His Worship, Mr Stanislus Amanoipo, and charged. Their pleas were not taken and they were remanded in prison custody to reappear on a later date.
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