Two military officers, Lance Corporal Matthew Amoako and Air Force Lance Corporal Alfred Mensah, have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labor for kidnapping and stealing. According to reports, the two soldiers, along with their accomplices, Frimpong and Francis Acheampony, who are drivers at a car rental company, were involved in the kidnapping of a victim named Asante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident occurred when the soldiers and their accomplices arrived at Asante’s residence around 2 pm, banging on his door and shouting his name. When Asante’s friend, Kwabena, arrived, he was attacked and used as bait to lure Asante out of his house. Once Asante opened the door, the soldiers beat him up, held him hostage, and demanded a ransom of GH\u00a240,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asante borrowed GH\u00a220,000 from a family member to secure his release. However, the soldiers discovered that the family member had more money in her room, which they stole, along with GH\u00a215,000 from Asante’s room and GH\u00a27,000 from Kwabena’s belongings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The soldiers were later apprehended by the Anumso townpeople and handed over to the police. They were charged to court and found guilty of kidnapping and stealing by the Asante Bekwai Circuit Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Military Officers Sentenced to 10 Years for Kidnapping and Stealing<\/p>\n
Two military officers, Lance Corporal Matthew Amoako and Air Force Lance Corporal Alfred Mensah, have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labor for kidnapping and stealing. According to reports, the two soldiers, along with their accomplices, Frimpong and Francis Acheampony, who are drivers at a car rental company, were involved in the kidnapping of a victim named Asante.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred when the soldiers and their accomplices arrived at Asante’s residence around 2 pm, banging on his door and shouting his name. When Asante’s friend, Kwabena, arrived, he was attacked and used as bait to lure Asante out of his house. Once Asante opened the door, the soldiers beat him up, held him hostage, and demanded a ransom of GH\u00a240,000.<\/p>\n
Asante borrowed GH\u00a220,000 from a family member to secure his release. However, the soldiers discovered that the family member had more money in her room, which they stole, along with GH\u00a215,000 from Asante’s room and GH\u00a27,000 from Kwabena’s belongings.<\/p>\n
The soldiers were later apprehended by the Anumso townpeople and handed over to the police. They were charged to court and found guilty of kidnapping and stealing by the Asante Bekwai Circuit Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}