Spokesperson for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr. Gideon Boako has implored State authorities to provide psychotherapy for the PRESEC student who staged his kidnap.
News recently broke about the abduction of a student of the Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School (PRESEC) in Accra whose captors demanded a whopping GHc 340,000 from the captive’s family before they release him.
The concerned family managed to send GHc 20,000 to the kidnappers after negotiations and agreement to set their son free.
The kidnappers after receiving the amount refused to release the student insisting that the family further pays GHc 300,000 and threatened to send their son chopped into pieces if they fail to comply with their instruction.
It was later discovered that the kidnapping story was a ploy by the captive and his captors who are also students of the school and friends to extort money from the captive’s family for him to travel abroad.
The Police informed the public about this plot after arresting six suspects including the student at the center of the abductionCommenting on the issue during media interview Dr. Gideon Boako lamented about the behaviour of the students and in a worrying tone wondered how a young boy could come up with such a plot to dupe his own parents.
In his view, this behaviour, apart from satisfying criminal purposes and intent of the student, also borders on mental health.
To him, the boy has to be investigated mentally as it defies human logic for any person, particularly a youth whose parents have done and are doing everything possible to provide him with adequate education and to secure his future, to think of kidnapping himself to defraud his parents..
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