The Ghana Prisons Service is currently in active pursuit of a Chinese convict who managed to abscond from custody under deceitful circumstances. The convict, with the aid of two prison officers, orchestrated his escape by luring them with a KFC meal and soft drinks.
CCTV footage revealed that the prison officers accompanied the Chinese inmate to a hotel in Korle-Gonno, Accra, where he purportedly met his wife in a room. Subsequently, the convict and his spouse allegedly fled through the balcony of the room while the officers waited in the hotel reception area.
As a result of this incident, Joseph Oteng and Sergeant Isaac Boateng Bonsu have been formally charged with conspiracy and aiding escape.
Abdul Latif Adamu, the Head of Public Relations at the Ghana Prison Service, has affirmed the institution’s unwavering commitment to recapturing the escaped convict. He stated, "Our search party is still on the field. We have gotten a lot of intelligence information leading to where the convict can be gotten. So I can tell you that the search party is still not resting. We have had a lot of intelligence information we are working with and hopefully by the time we finish putting those intelligence information into action we hope to bring him back to custody."
The Ghana Prisons Service is dedicated to ensuring that the escaped convict is apprehended and brought back into custody. Efforts are being intensified, and the institution is leveraging intelligence information to achieve this objective.
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