Lady who defrauded man of GHC 3,000 arrested
26th October 2018
Nancy Adobea, a 23-year-old lady who posed as a nurse with Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and defrauded a prospective car buyer of an amount of GHC 3,000 has been arrested by the Nsawam police.
The Nsawam police revealed that one Ebenezer Kumah of Ntoaso, a village near Nsawam, lodged a complaint about how he was defrauded by Nancy.
The complainant is noted to have said that about nine months ago, Nancy Adobea collected the sum of GHC 3000 from him under the pretext of selling a car to him but failed to deliver on her promise.
Ebenezer Kumah thought it wise to report the case to the police to assist him find the lady and retrieve his money.
On October 22, 2018 the suspect, Nancy Adobea, was arrested wearing a nurse's uniform claiming she was a nurse at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
Her behavior upon her arrest was deemed suspicious by the police and it led to further interrogation about her profession and her place of work.
Nancy Adobea, according to reports, later admitted that, she was not a nurse but she put on the uniform to outwit the intelligence of police to spare her of the crime she had committed.
She has currently been detained by police and is assisting them with their investigations.
In a related development, police in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region are on a manhunt for the Headmaster of Cape Three Point Catholic Primary for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old pupil of the school.
The headmaster, Charles Cromwell, believed to be in his 50s, was said to have lured the girl to his house after school on Monday, October 22, 2018 and defiled her several times after which he gave her five cedis.
It took the vigilance of two colleagues from the same school to expose the headmaster.