Five-year-old boy gets missing under unclear circumstances

Brakwa (C/R), July 4, GNA - A five-year-old boy, who was reported missing from his Brakwa home, has been found alive 10 days after in a bush near a forest reserve at Ogonaso Kwaado, a suburb of Brakwa, police said. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, Police Inspector John Akutteh in charge of Brakwa said on June 16, the boy's father, Mr. Yaw Korankye, lodged a report that his son, a kindergarten pupil, was missing. Mr Korankye also told the police that it was the third time his son got missing from the house and suggested that it might be dwarfs who were whisking his son away.

According to Inspector Akutteh, the Police accompanied Mr Korankye to the chief's palace where he narrated the story and immediately a search party was organized. He said a search and rescue party gave up after several days of combing all the corners, but to no avail. Inspector Akutteh said on June 25, one Kofi Ketu, a 57-year-old farmer who had gone to set traps on his farm near the forest reserve, about four kilometres from Brakwa, found the child entangled in the bush.

Mr. Ketu returned and informed the elders, who organised a group which rescued the boy to the chief's palace and later to the health centre for medical screening. Inspector Akutteh said the boy's parents would be put before court for exposing the child to danger.