A five-year-old girl, Juliana Acquaye, who was reported missing from the grandmother’s home last Monday, was found dead in a manhole on Tuesday.
The body was found by a family member, Madam Christine Okai, just some few metres away from the family house at Ahado in Hohoe in the Volta Region.
According to the Hohoe Police, Juliana, who had been living with her grandmother, Veronica Okai, at Hohoe Ahado, near the Sankis Preparatory School, was last seen playing with other children around 8 a.m. that Monday morning before the grandmother left home for the market.
She could not be traced after then and a thorough search by the family in the neighbourhood proved futile.
The police said the search took the guardians to the house of the father, a Nigerian known as Moses, who told them he had not seen the child. The search became very frantic when they made a report to Lolonyo Radio, a local FM station, and the police around 7 p.m.
The next morning, according to the police, the search resumed in earnest and Christine found the child dead in the manhole which had been forced open.
The mother of the child, Mawufemor Adzrakor, was not in town at the time of the incident.
The police said what was shocking most was that just about 10 metres away from where Juliana was found dead, another manhole had been forced open.
The situation had caused some apprehension among the residents about the safety of their children.
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