Family Offers ₵100K for Information on Missing Lands Commission Staff

The family of missing Rhodaline Amoah-Darko, a staff of the Lands Commission in Kumasi has put out GHC₵100,000 reward for anyone who would donate any information that could lead to her discovery.

It comes two years after no sign of her reappearance, a situation that has plunged her family into distress.

Speaking to the media, her mother, Cecelia Obenewa Appiah, said she has been enduring an anxious wait for her daughter to no avail and thus the decision to put out the said amount of money as trial is ongoing.

“In fact it’s not easy. All these bureaucracies gong on are not bringing back my daughter. I need my daughter. That is the bottom line. The bottom line is that I need Rhoda. That is why I have appealed and continually appeal to all Ghanaians. That’s why we have put GHC100,000 on Rhoda that whoever finds or whoever has knowledge whoever knows where she has been kept, please I am on my knees. It’s my daughter I need. It has been two years and over, it’s not easy to bear.”

Background
Rhoda, according to the police was reported missing on 2nd September 2021 by her husband, Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, a senior lecturer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

According to the police, he reported Rhoda had been kidnapped but prosecutors later linked him to her disappearance, effected his arrest and charged him with kidnapping.

During his arraignment at the Asokwa District court in November 2021, the prosecution said probe revealed that kidnapping notes sent from the victim’s phone number to Mr. Aggrey and some relatives were sent in a location closer to the couple’s home at KNUST campus.

Dr. Aggrey during interrogation admitted to sending the messages, however, under threat from one Rukky, prosecution noted, adding that Rukky had threatened to harm his family if he resisted.

He also admitted taking his wife somewhere close to the Volta Lake to keep her safe but failed to tell the police her location, the prosecution added. He was denied bail by the Asokwa District Court on several occasions.

The case was moved to the Kumasi High Court where Dr Aggrey was subsequently granted GH¢300,000 bail with one surety to be justified in August 2022.

Meanwhile, two others are also standing trial for her disappearance. They are Yaw Boateng and Justice Appiah in whose possession Rhodaline’s phone was found.