Abducted boy managed to escape death

Agona Swedru, Jan 25, GNA - Mrs. Faustina Sam, an Agona Swedru businesswoman, on Wednesday appealed to the Swedru Traditional Council and the Ministry of Interior to move quickly to take measures to protect school children from abduction and possible killing. She said the lives of children in the area are in danger and everything possible must be done to protect them from killers who have invaded the town.

Mrs. Sam said this when he narrated to the Ghana News Agency an ordeal her 11-year-old son, Paa Joe Sam, went through when unknown assailants abducted him.

She said on January 16, her son went to the grandmother, Madam Ama Prah, at Mahodwe, a suburb of Swedru.

While there, she alleged, a man put a white handkerchief onto his nose and he lost consciousness.

When he came round he was in an uncompleted building with another boy who asked him if he wanted something to drink or eat but he declined the offer.

Mrs. Sam said her son managed to escape and arrived at a spot on the Swedru Asafo/Awutu Bawjiase main road and walked home at 0450 hours on Wednesday January 17.

The boy told GNA that he would not be able to trace the uncompleted building he was taken into because he not familiar with the area.